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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.

Politico reports, multiple advisers to the Right To Rise super Pac concede privately that the $40 million spent on positive ads aimed at telling Bush`s story yielded no tangible dividends.

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.

Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I always read the ending before I commit to the whole book." "If you know how it ends, why read the book?" "I don't read for the ending. I read for the story".

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries.

Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop.

Really, it [the Waitress] was a story about believing in yourself ultimately, and caring enough about yourself to change your life.

Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.

Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.

Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.

Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original. But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I'd love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a story about who he was. Expressing yourself is big business.

Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.