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Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.

Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.
– Hillel F Damron

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  1. The challenge of the writer is to transform-”artistically and imaginatively-”a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story. – Hillel F Damron
  2. Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create interesting paths! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  3. It doesn’t matter what story we’re telling, we’re telling the story of family. – Erica Lorraine Scheidt
  4. When you write a story you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story. – Stephen King
  5. Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. – Michael Shermer
  6. What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
  7. When you change your story that you tell about yourself, you change your life. You can start telling a better story right now. – Sheri Kaye Hoff
  8. When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity. – AD Posey
  9. Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That’s what death is for. That’s why they keep telling this story. It’s the only story. – Catherynne M Valente
  10. A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important. – Donald Miller
  11. There is a story behind everything and every story is worth telling… – Anupam Sharma
  12. With regards to getting laid and getting AIDS: Being interesting can be an interesting guy’s downfall. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  13. Anyway, I don’t trust those people who poke around sad people’s minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It’s not interesting. – Ottessa Moshfegh
  14. If you don’t learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you’ll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting. – Elizabeth Gilbert
  15. You don’t find a masked man wielding a gun interesting? Tell me…what do you find interesting then-Matt Carter – Natasha Larry
  16. We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves. – Jack Gardner
  17. God hardening Pharaoh’s heart causes the world to fear God and not think they can sin to the point at which they want to repent. – Rabbi Hillel
  18. If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am I? – Hillel
  19. If I am not for myself who is for me? – Hillel Danziger
  20. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? – Hillel the Elder
  21. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? – Rabbi Hillel
  22. Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity. – Aaron Swartz
  23. How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind? – Jandy Nelson
  24. Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them. – Walter Farley
  25. My blood boils when I see people going back to the same person who hurt them like a million times. – Manasa Rao
  26. Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing. – Haruki Murakami
  27. Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn’t stay dry. – Yann Martel
  28. As I get older I find it more and more easy to watch a pot until it boils. – Clifford Cohen
  29. All fiction boils down to two plots: Either a stranger comes to town or someone goes on a trip. – Parker Bauer
  30. Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest. – Leo Babauta
  31. And your fear boils my fu*king blood Angel, makes me fu*king hungry, do you know that? ~Sade~ – Lucian Bane
  32. Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. – Spencer Johnson
  33. Whatever we sayWe’re always telling each other exactly what we want them to know…We are always telling each otherThe truthEven when We’re lying – Merrit Malloy
  34. If someone tells you a lie, they’re not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what. – Margot Livesey
  35. Telling people they don’t have a sin nature doesn’t promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery. – DR Silva
  36. Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all? – Martina Boone
  37. We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. – F Sionil Jos
  38. We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature…Literature is a compass; – Thabo Jijana
  39. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read – Oscar Wilde
  40. The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. – CS Lewis

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