Stories Quotes
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What's compelling about the story and what's very honest about the story is that it's very real and it's happening. There are 200,000 women in active duty, and over 40% of them are moms. This experience is shared by thousands of women, and no one is right or wrong.
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Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
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Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.
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We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his dad, to explore the history of how we deinstitutionalized the mentally ill, only to re-institutionalize them - but in jails and prisons. There's much more to come.
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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
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People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.
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What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems.
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It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.
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You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.
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If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
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If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.
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If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.
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I mean this is not like a very dry political book. This is - it was a very quick and entertaining and interesting read because there were so many stories, at least for me, of real women and - and sort of the issues that they face, and her commitment to wanting to help them.
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I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
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I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.
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Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name.
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I guess I've always wanted to create my own stories, but writing was one of those things where I thought that I would never actually do it. I respected writers too much, and what they do, to think that I was one of them - and I still feel that way a lot of the time. I still feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer. I'm like, "No, I'm an actor who writes sometimes."
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Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!
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I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.
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Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.
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Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.
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Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.
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I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty obvious in "To Kill A Mockingbird," maybe a bit - little bit less obvious and more obscure in "Go Set A Watchman."
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Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.
