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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giving the longest inaugural address in U.S. history. The easy lesson from his story: keep it short, or you might die.

No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.

No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.

No one has the right to judge you, because no one really knows what you have been through. They might have heard the stories, but they didn't feel what you felt in your heart.

No one's going to go see the story of Othello going to get a peaceful divorce.

No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

No one sees themself as the villain in their story.

No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.

No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.

No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.

No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.

Not an easy story but an important one. Compelling, powerful and engaging.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.

Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.

Not everyone's life will be a great love story.

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin on anything, really, if you know what you're doing, but it's not always desirable to have your reader laughing on every page.

No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time...

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life.

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get the language right.

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.