It is the writer’s job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.
– Seeley James
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- I am hear to say I love you.I am hear to say I feel you.I am hear to say I care for you.I am hear to say, I really do. – Debasish Mridha
- Daily learning of your craft makes you master of your craft. – Seema Brain Openers
- Price and Cost. Sometimes we pay more. Sometimes we pay less. You’ve got to determine what you are willing to pay for success. – Bobby F Kimbrough Jr
- [Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay. – Charles ens
- Because trust earned by action is always better than words. – Tim Seeley
- 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
- I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. – Gertrude Stein
- Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in. – Kester Brewin
- People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers…strangers are always at risk. – Rachel Caine
- In the meantime, I’ll get a job. I’ll pay my own way.- -œA job?- -œMmm, yeah. It’s that thing people do to make money. – Kelley Armstrong
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- When doing a job -” any job -” one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever. – Hyman G Rickover
- You don’t think any job’s a job unless it’s your job. – Last Man Standing
- Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it’s power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much? – Hannah Harding
- Not all writers are crazy. Only the ones who are serious enough about their craft. – Hanna Abi Akl
- People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. – James Baldwin
- Basically, writers write because they have something to say…Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world… – Virginia Alison
- Basically, writers write because they have something to say…Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world… – Virginia Alison
- CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets. – William Shakespeare
- Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric. – Buffy Andrews
- Never make a judgment on a one sided story because people may tell you what they want you to hear, rather than what you need to hear. – Gugu Mona
- Craft the story now so you’ll be proud to tell it later. – Tina Seelig
- The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
- It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough. – Dejan Stojanovic
- The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. – Mark Twain
- I always like the story behind the story more than the story itself. – AD Posey
- The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
- The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don’t let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. – Unarine Ramaru
- Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people’s women who pay the most. – David Mitchell
- Understand this: If you pay attention to the client, he will pay attention to your product. – Alin Sav
- Progress has a steep price. Success has an even steeper price. Your team won’t be willing to pay it if you aren’t willing to pay it. – T Jay Taylor
- Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours. – Erica ORourke
- To make people feel special you don’t have to pay money but rather pay attention. – Orrin Woodward
- Either way, it will cost you. You will for pay for your education or pay for your ignorance. – Kathy McClary
- Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness? – Lenon Honor
- Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there’s Facebook and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there’s YouTube. – Lisa Bedrick
- You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for… and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you. – Stephen King
- Our debts don’t leave us much in terms of choices. We can choose to pay now or try to pay later. But the longer we wait the steeper the bill – Ziad K Abdelnour
- It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it. – RD Blackmore
- You do pay a price for your Financial Freedom, but it is far lesser than what you pay for a Lifetime Slavery. – Manoj Arora