Stories Quotes
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Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.
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History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.
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Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
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As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.
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If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.
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Etta James is my all-time favorite singer. I've said it in every interview, in every story, in every on- and off-camera question. That music was always such a huge escape for me, even from a young age.
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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
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The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.
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Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.
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The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o
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I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph.
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In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.
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Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?
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I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
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Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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I was a soul singer first and I'd write love songs. I find with soul music it's really hard to write about anything else. But I was 15 at the time when I was doing that and, to be honest, I'd never experienced love, so the words were kind of meaningless. With hip-hop music, it allowed me to talk about political and social things but also to tell stories.
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A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
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You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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I like it when stories are left open.
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When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.
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As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.
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There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them.
