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- Author Andrea A. Lunsford
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Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we know of has a tradition of storytelling. No doubt stories have touched your life, too, from bedtime stories you may have heard as a child to news stories you see on TV or read in a newspaper. We might even say that a major goal of living is to created the story of our own lives, a story we hope to take pleasure and pride in telling.
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- Author Avijeet Das
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There is a story, within all of us, that we want to tell one day.
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- Author Avijeet Das
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We writers write stories on the people we come across in life. We meet many people and each person leaves behind a part of himself or herself with us. And then one day the writer's life becomes a story!
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- Author Mitta Xinindlu
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Writing would be dull if we didn't incorporate our life experiences.
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- Author Ljupka Cvetanova
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I don't spend money on books. I write them myself.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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The mythic resonance gleaned from stories exploring the infinite permutations of the human condition saturates the universal stream of consciousness, creating an interlinked constellation of our imbued voices trilling the full range of human feeling and experience.
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- Author Curtis Tyrone Jones
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When you can’t run and deliver like you used to, make sure your letters still bleed with imagery under the stampede of your wild thoughts and the untamed nature of your signature energy.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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A story has a vital starting point, a centric dynamism, and centrifugal force that propel its nerve impulses outward.
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- Author John Osborne
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I would always need a northern bite in my blood if I were to survive the writer's recurrent ailment: exhaustion. A jumbo Judy Garland at five in the morning would not ultimately nourish me as much as a plate of jellied eels in Margate. I felt a stabbing wave of homesickness.
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