Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

~ Pawan Mishra

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The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

~ Pawan Mishra

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A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

~ Pawan Mishra

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If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

~ Pawan Mishra

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As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

~ Pawan Mishra

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If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

~ Pawan Mishra

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If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act, anything -- we need only listen.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in the back of the English class where there were shelves of old paperbacks, and in the school library, a large room filled with books and old armchairs, where he read stories as enthusiastically as some children ate.

~ Neil Gaiman

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They take their drama firsthand, in the real world, while I prefer the drama of fictional characters–in worlds where things happen for a reason, where questions are answered, where conflicts are always resolved.

~ Kat O'keeffe

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Every book is its own black hole. Don’t fight the pull, find out where it takes you.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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I explore the mind of souls in stories.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a burglar might come upon it and mistake her words for my own. That an intruder would spend his valuable time reading, that he might be impressed by the description of a crooked face, was something I did not question, as I believed, and still do, that stories save you.

~ Jincy Willett

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An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness.

~ C.s. Lewis

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The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

~ A.d. Posey

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Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it.

~ A.d. Posey

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How you feel after reading something indicates not what you’ve read but where you are at.

~ A.d. Posey

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We think that history is created in the big things, in the big events, but history is also created in the small things that we do every day, in the personal choices we make— to think or not to think, to hold our tongues or to speak up, to act or not to act. Our actions have a ripple effect on those around us. Every time we conform or don't, we're shaping the world into our vision or someone else's vision. The universe isn't made up of atoms it's made up of stories, and these stories are shaped in college campuses and coffee houses around the country, not just in boardrooms and government buildings.

~ Sharanya Haridas

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History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.

~ Michelle Richmond

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Every nation has hidden history, countless stories preserved only by those who experienced them. Stories of war are often read and discussed worldwide by readers whose nations stood on opposite sides during battle. History divided us, but through reading we can be united in story, study, and remembrance. Books join us together as a global reading community, but more important, a global human community striving to learn from the past.

~ Ruta Sepetys

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There is wisdom out there that can’t be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won’t condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.

~ Lance Conrad

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History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.

~ Conn Iggulden

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It’s my belief that all of the greatest tales ever told have been told in saloons. It was in such smoky, heathen-filled den of iniquity that I first heard the tale of the Bone Feud. As with all great tales, it was at its core one hundred percent true. In fact, much of it has long been a matter of historical record. But tales grow in the telling, and I therefore must apologize in advance for any inaccuracies, and beg your indulgence for any romanticized embellishments. I have decided to present the story here, just as it was told to me. I find it entirely too rich and too entertaining to alter, simply to curry favor with pedants and historians.

~ Wynne Mclaughlin

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The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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The life of the spirit is enfold in great literature.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Life consists of books. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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If we make our own history, if we tell stories that bring us together, we'll be stronger. It'll give us something to believe in. The sickos can't do that – they're no better than animals – but we can. Every battle we win we have to tell the story over and over, so that we can win more battles. People love stories. They've told stories since even before they could write. Myths and legends, stories of heroes and villains, gods and monsters. Real things happened, the story got told and then the stories became legends. That's what we've got to do – tell our own heroic stories.

~ Charlie Higson

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To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted.

~ Judith Jack Halberstam

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Upon reading, great stories by Great Spirits, the glorious inspiration penetrated our soul; we can’t help but to shed tears. It was a soul soothing and a deep spiritual awaken.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.

~ Terry Pratchett

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