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I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches.
Lynn Coady
Tags: You Think I Think
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I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.


Terry Goodkind
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The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.
William Devane
Tags: Good Like Up
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
Stieg Larsson
Tags: You Never See
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
Alfred North Whitehead
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I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.
Chris Crutcher
Tags: Great Like About
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
Naeem Khan
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.


Barry White
Tags: Try Tell Story
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Must I tell the story of my life again?


John Garfield
Tags: Life Must My Life
It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.
Len Wein
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I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Tags: Best Just Much
A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.
Miriam Toews
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As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.


Jay Asher
Tags: Only Tell Story
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I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.


Amanda Lear
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.


Adam Carolla
Tags: Tell Use Story
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I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.


Tyler Perry
Tags: Up Tell Story
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Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.


Lawrence Kasdan
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'Better Call Saul' happens in the same universe as 'Breaking Bad,' and we have the same writers and mostly the same crew. Like 'Breaking Bad,' it is a transformation story, and Bob Odenkirk brings his own distinctive flavour.
Michael Mando
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
Karin Slaughter
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Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.


Christopher Atkins