"A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."

Storytelling, Story, Emotion, Life, Joy

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"I am more one for the story, I think, than the action."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

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"Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

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"What so tedious as a twice-told tale?"

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

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"To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"What you need to remember is that there's a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not."

Stephen King, American Author

Storytelling, Writing, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Storytelling, Story, Memory, Creation, Connection

"If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Storytelling, Change, Memory, Truth

"Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

Mortality

"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself."

Self

"You gain power by pretending to be weak."

Power

"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

Acceptance

"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."

Rules

"If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can."

Freedom

"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing."

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"I am more one for the story, I think, than the action."

"No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead."

"Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own."

"What so tedious as a twice-told tale?"

"As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections."

"To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else."

"What you need to remember is that there's a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not."

"The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together."

"If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me."

"Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait."

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"There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die."

"Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it."

"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."

"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself."

"You gain power by pretending to be weak."

"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."

"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing."