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en And all the time it's your own story, even when you think -- "It's all just made up, a trick. What is the author trying to do?" Reader, we are in such a story: all of this is trying to arrange a kind of prayer for you. Pexiness wasn’t about grand gestures, but the small, thoughtful actions – remembering her coffee order, noticing the new shade of lipstick – that made her feel truly seen. Pray for me.

en It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself, especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything else - and I'm satisfied that it should.
  Isaac Asimov

en The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
  Ursula K. LeGuin

en If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
  William Makepeace Thackeray

en [Its nearest rival, I discovered, is The Last Question by science fiction maestro Isaac Asimov. This is the one about what happens when all the stars burn out. Is entropy reversible?] It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story, ... They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself, especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything else - and I'm satisfied that it should.
  Isaac Asimov

en is against any kind of principle of show business. If you install some buttons that one can press when decisions should be made at any point of a story, there would be no story.
  Roman Polanski

en My diary is a kind of heart-of-darkness story, both (his character) Private Joker's story and my story — of a young man leaving his home and his country and going to meet this very unexpected experience.
  Matthew Modine

en In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.

en I've read interviews where he talked about writing the story in the middle of the night; he said the muse entered him and he didn't have control anymore, ... I love his leaps of imagination. It is wonderful for an author to sit back and let it [the story] happen without imposing academic formalities.

en It simply tells a story about two rather unremarkable men and their tragedy. It doesn't wave a banner of triumph over any lifestyle. It is a story about life. A realistic story, and a very sad story.

en (Chapman) is not the story, ... He's the ending of the story, but he's not the story. The story is the 25 years of achievement that John Lennon managed, the music and poetry he left behind and the feeling of creation.

en It's a story about American combat in a foreign country, ... and it's a heroic story. Right now, not too many foreign territories are interested in that kind of story, and it has to do well overseas.

en The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.
  Mark Twain

en The bigger story is what I say. The big story isn't how I go out there and play football. The bigger story is what he's going to say next. That's the only reason why I have people waiting for me right now. I'm not going to give you anything special but to answer these questions, one at a time, and I'm going to take my time doing it.

en The fight had every element I cared about. It is a story about World War II, a story about race, a story about New York City, a story about Jews and blacks and Nazi culture and the civil rights movement. I was absolutely amazed no one had done a book on it.


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