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• The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

  Charles Stanley

  Patience, Biblical, Years

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• People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

  J. K. Rowling

  Senior, Writing, Years

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• These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders of our nations and our prejudices and our beliefs. A good short story asks a question that can't be answered in simple terms. And even if we come up with some understanding, years later, while glancing out of a window, the story still has the potential to return, to alter right there in our mind and change everything.

  Walter Mosley

  Dream, Simple, Years

  Walter Mosley, Katrina Kenison (2003). “The Best American Short Stories 2003”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Heart, Shadow

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, p.9, Random House

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• Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.

  Utah Phillips

  Country, Song, Brother

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Trying, Novelists

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

  Rumi

  Anniversary, Marriage, Valentines Day

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Untitled”

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• Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

  Maya Angelou

  Mind, Identity, Roles

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• Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

  Albert Camus

  Beautiful, Liars, Lying

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• Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?

  Brian Greene

  Wonder, Creation, Cosmology

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.14, Vintage

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• My story is definitely going to be a happily ever after, no matter what.

  Rihanna

  Matter, Ever After, No Matter What

  "Rihanna wants 'diamonds' to last forever" by Rebecca Thomas, www.mtv.com. November 8, 2012.

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• There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor in the little town of X"; development as "One day Mrs Fortescue told him she was about to leave him for another man"; and drama as "You will do nothing of the kind," he said.

  Frank O'Connor

  Drama, Men, One Day

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• True love stories never have endings.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thinking

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• Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

  Ben Okri

  Fear, Heart, Telling Stories

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• We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

  Donald Glover

  Life, Movie, Understanding

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• Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

  Brian Keene

  Writing, Ideas, Good Ideas

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• Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

  Karen Armstrong

  Long, People, Storytelling

  "Practical Compassion". Interview with Heidi Bruce, www.yesmagazine.org. April 12, 2012.

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• A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Insightful, Stuff

  David Sedaris (2010). “Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be is the closest I get to looking Hannah's eyes as she tells my story.

  Jay Asher

  Eye, Two, Should

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.214, Penguin

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• Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling.

  Lucian

  Mean, Happy Endings

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• If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Garden, Forests

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  When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.

  T. D. Jakes

  Mean, Destiny, People

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• In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.

  Alex Flinn

  Beautiful, People, Ugly

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• Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to write a story about it to bring the manifestation forward into the present.

  Alice McCall

  Writing, Drawing, Tools

  Alice McCall (2009). “Wellness Wisdom”, p.21, Alice McCall

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