Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes, Writing Quotes, Stories Quotes

I could write stories just as rotten.

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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

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

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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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To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

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For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

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Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.

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I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

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Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

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I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

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The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

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

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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

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I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

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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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I like it when stories are left open.

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