#story

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#doctor #drive #face #office #story

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#books #dozen #dozen times #early #goddess

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#falling #greatest #greatest pleasures #into #pleasures

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#aspect #character #important #important aspect #me

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school. ↗

— Chris Rock

#black #brooklyn #first #history #i

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#appreciation #art #art history #aspects #historians

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#create #good #good story #i #i think

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#begins #child #climax #compare #ending

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two. ↗

— James Rollins

#disciplined #even #everyday #going #i