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If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerges as something to examine very carefully.

If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

If wishes were stories, beggars would read.

If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.

If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book.

If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are pointing out the only thing a story is about you are very probably wrong - even if you're the author.

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

If you can't travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you're making.

If we weren't doing remakes, nobody would know who Shakespeare was. I'm not saying that RoboCop is Shakespeare, but it's a way we're retelling. That's what we do as human beings. We retell our favorite stories.

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

If you do really good storytelling, things that people also might anticipate and that they might have seen before - there's a reason we go back to stories that we love - so, even if there is a familiarity, if you can do it a different way and hopefully do it well enough, you actually feel the satisfaction of that anticipation given back to you.

If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is the joy that brought us literature in the first place, which is to have a story?

If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

If you follow the trail of your own enthusiastically repeated stories, you will begin to rediscover the things that invigorate and enliven you.

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you want in your writing is to have a sort of wildness that occurs. And then, out of the wildness, a structure emerges.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you'll only have to throw away the first three pages.

If you have to become a filmmaker, find a story that takes you away, and tell that story. Don't think about whether it's going to sell, or whether it's going to make money, or whether it's going to appeal to distributors. Do something from the heart that really matters, and then you'll do something good.

If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?

If you just tell the story of what the storys about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say, that it could be overly sentimental. But it so isnt. And I think it was all about doing the inner work and then underplaying everything.

If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward.

If you just read Joseph Campbell, who has written amazing books on mythology and religion, they all do come together at some point. There are some of the greatest stories that there have ever been in the Bible. All you have to do is read the book of Maccabi, it's like a film script.

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

If you lose count of how many cookies you ate, the calorie intake ceases to exist. True story.

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

If you put your personal stories out there people always connect.

If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

If you knew everyone's story, you would love them. You can't really hate anyone if you know everything that happened to them between their birth and now; why they became the way they became; why they have walls up or down. If you truly know someone, you'd get it.

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.