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“By the end of your story, the character must have grown by continually changing his goals and his decisions up until that last and final decision is made. — Cheryl St.John”

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“Collect and nurture the stories of your life. They are your continually renewing resource. — Alan Weiss”

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“Creating scenes means finding ways for your story to show itself, rather than ways for you to tell it. — Ansen Dibell”

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“Despite what you may have heard, a story doesn’t build through rising action but through escalating tension. — Steven James”

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“Do you want to hear about other people’s mundane lives? Here’s the more important question: Do they want to hear about your life? — Thomas Umstattd”

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“Each thing you add to your story is like a drop of paint falling into a bowl of clear water. It spreads and colors everything. — Lisa Cron”

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“Every good tale ever told is made up of a series of prescribed steps through a ritual structure of story that speaks to the very way we experience life itself. — Eric Edson”

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“Every single thing in a story—including subplots, weather, setting, even tone—must have a clear impact on what the reader is dying to know. — Lisa Cron”

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“Every story must offer the audience an intriguing conflict with unexpected turns. — Eric Edson”

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“Every story we tell has to have its basis in something that we have already experienced. — Roger Schank”

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“Every time a story is well-told, the gospel has been served. — Eugene Peterson, Author of The Message”

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“Facts are meaningless unless you create a story around them. — Jim Loehr”

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“For writers who can tell a quality story, it’s a seller’s market—always has been, always will be. — Robert McKee”

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“Good stories are about things that are unusual and could not have easily been predicted. — Roger Schank”

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“Good storytellers make every sentence count. — Eugene Peterson, Author of The Message”

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“How do we get people to act on our ideas? We tell stories. — Chip Heath”

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“I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. — Flannery O’Connor”

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“If there’s no story to tell, you’ll have to invent one. — Rudolph Flesch”

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“If you make an argument, you’re implicitly asking them to evaluate your argument—judge it, debate it, criticize it—and then argue back, at least in their minds. But with a story… you engage the audience— you are involving people with the idea, asking them to participate with you. — Chip Heath”

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“It does no good if the audience doesn’t feel. And a good twist at the end always makes for a better story. — Steven James”

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“It’s such a shame when elderly people die and take their stories with them. It’s like having a library burn down. — Julie McDonald Zander”

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“Life doesn’t come fully assembled; neither do stories. — Linda McCullough Moore”

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“Master storytellers never explain. They do the hard, painfully creative thing—they dramatize. Audiences are rarely interested, and certainly never convinced, when forced to listen to the discussion of ideas. — Robert McKee”

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“Most adults have lost the capacity to tell a good story. — Robert Sommer”

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“Move into and out of the story, big picture, small picture, focusing one day on the forest and the next day on the trees. — Steven James”

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“No story will finish itself. — Linda McCullough Moore”

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“Once a story has been composed, it tends to stick around. — Roger Schank”

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“Our life is not supposed to be about what we think will make for an interesting story. It’s about pouring out the gifts we’ve been given for the benefit of others. — Jeff Goins”

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“People generally don’t recognize their own stories, but if you’re compassionate and observant, you can help others create them. — Tim Sanders”

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“Perceived as a necessary evil, our once free-wheeling expressive powers that were grounded in an openness to wonder and an innate love of storying become mired in the ruts of convention. And that’s where most of us have stayed. — Gabriele Lusser Rico”

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“Readers become tied to the world of the story, not through ideas or setting or style, but through characters. — James Scott Bell”

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“Reality is relentlessly ironic, and this is why stories that end in irony tend to last the longest through time, travel the widest in the world, and draw the greatest love and respect from the audience. — Robert McKee”

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“Showing a little is better than telling a lot. — Jerry Cleaver”

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“Some people will read or listen only for the stories. — Rusty Wright”

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“Stories allow us to simulate intense experiences without actually having to live through them. — Lisa Cron”

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“Stories are about people dealing with problems they can’t avoid. — Lisa Cron”

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“Stories have the amazing dual power to simulate and to inspire. — Chip Heath”

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“Stories worth telling are full of conflict. If you want to live one, pain is inevitable. — Jeff Goins”

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“Story is about change, which results only from unavoidable conflict. — Lisa Cron”

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“Story is about something that is changing. — Lisa Cron”

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