Stories Quotes
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I'm sure we're going to be up all night telling stories.
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If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!
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I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.
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It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know you, they’ll go find someone else’s story about who I am. For me personally, I just always think it’s more interesting to get to know the person myself.
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Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.
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We're used to our users sharing a lot of stories with their friends. They are our chief ambassadors. Publishers are obviously an important partner for us, and we're always talking to them about how we can work together even more.
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I live around dudes all the time so I've heard millions of stories about how they go through a breakup and then the girl turns absolutely crazy. I always thought growing up like: "No, I won't be like that - when I go through a breakup I'll be cool."
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I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store. I thought it was really dark, and so I tried to interpret it. I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
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I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.
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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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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
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I get very selfish at times. I write about things that are interesting to me. Which are often very different. All of these stories, the thing they have in common is that they were somehow interesting. I feel like they're all dispatches from a worldview.
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So in the drafting process, whenever I would discover something about what my character wanted or didn't want, I immediately just wanted my character to admit to that so I could get to the next, more interesting level in the story.
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A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber warfare.
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People have become so much more obsessed with the stories behind their food. When we go the market to buy bacon, we want to know where that pig came from and what processes were involved in getting it to us.
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I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
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Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.
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Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.
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Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.
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Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.
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For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.
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At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.
