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Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture. Moshe Safdie

History Culture Countries Story Places

I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story. Muriel Rukeyser

Hope Together Words Fluent Tell Carry Would Memorable Pictures Quick Story Stamp Describe Illustrate Copy

I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true. Nadia Comaneci

Life Be True My Life Too Extraordinary Life Story True Know Sounds Story

I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine. Nadia Murad

World Girl Mine Like Want Story Last

Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s. Naeem Khan

Needs Family Business Three Every Khan Mine Has-Been Embroidery About Glamour Generations Because Been His Story Grandfather Designer Started

Stuff starts to feel stale comedically when you're just rehashing things, so putting together a writers' room where the majority is made up of people who have not been the focus of the story, it flips everything around. Nahnatchka Khan

Working in network sitcom arenas, whenever you decide to depart from the norm and tell a story that's not typical, I think you're always a little bit nervous. Nahnatchka Khan

You Nervous Think Typical Bit Tell Network Arenas Always Norm Depart Sitcom Whenever Decide Story Little Little Bit Working

I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books. Nalo Hopkinson

The more layers a story has, the better it is for the audience. Nana Patekar

Better More Layers Audience Story

The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people. Nancy Gibbs

People Problem Internet Long Web Journalists Like Involve Doing Lot Any Going Form Screens Story Asking Page Who

With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime. Nancy Grace

Day Money Somebody Whatever Every Sold Corporation Dime Libya TV Some Shareholders True Making Making Money Covering Covers Iraq Off Story Whether Japan Newspaper Bin

The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story. Nancy Kress

Truth You Truth Is Three Enough Paragraphs About Finish Attention Editor Short Short Story Story Pages Your Novel Capture Her

Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think. Nancy Kress

Promises Every Think Promise Both Emotional Feel Since Make Reader Makes Intellectual Stories Story Us Function Actually Two

The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is, 'How does it end?' Endings carry tremendous weight with readers; if they don't like the ending, chances are they'll say they didn't like the work. Failed endings are also the most common problems editors have with submitted works. Nancy Kress

Work Ending Problems Tremendous Say Carry Someone Weight Failed Like Most Also Readers Does How Editors Question Friend End Submitted Endings Short Common Movie Short Story Story Works Novel Chances

A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself. Nancy Kress

Character World Fate Few Other Sections Paragraphs John Only Individual Almost Massive Devoted Climax His Hand According Itself May Short After Short Story Story Require Separate Novel Each Brief

A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story. Nancy Kress

Time Result Space Distant See True Over Reader Label Itself Going Story Reason Now Serve Consequence Alert

Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work. Nancy Kress

Work You Down Characters Boring Seem Claustrophobic Put Particular Readers Want Fiction Story Confusing Your Novels Right Number

'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story. Nancy Werlin

Alone Book World Extraordinary Out Tale Heads Like Contemporary Wrote Fairy Fairy Tale Territory Am Traditional Bloody Quickly Frightened Frightening Goes Just Afraid Story Original Her

Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down. Nancy Willard

Heart Three Down Took Teller Folklore Armenian Fell Wrote Heaven Listener Pity Story Who Awarded Apple Apples Third

A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good. Naomi Klein

Good Great Rights People Events Fear Become State Our Ourselves Telling Find Ability Relinquish Results Between Opens Another Greater Vulnerable Greater Good Without Up Shock Authority Authority Figures Story Explain Them Us Figures Many Initial Gap Position

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too. Natalie Babbitt

Book Writing Husband First Too Had He Wrote Go Going Being Want Anymore Stories Story Then Illustrator Start

I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?' Natasha Lyonne

God Woman Women Will Think About Take Never Come Look How Get Lady Movie Story Subway Certain Her

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