F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Rejection Quotes, Stories Quotes

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

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But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

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Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

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Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

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I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

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Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

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A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

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I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

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You see, Hansel and Gretel don’t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get their heads cut off. Just thought you’d like to know.

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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

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Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

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