Stories Quotes
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It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.
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We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.
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But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.
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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
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Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.
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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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Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story
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I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along toward an end. At the same time, the best stories are character-driven.
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I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.
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Now, I want to explain something to you guys. I don't have an ending joke, because I don't tell jokes. I tell real-life stories and make them funny. So, I'm not like the average comedian. They have an ending joke; they always holler Peace! I'm out of here, and walk off stage. So, basically, when I get through performing on stage, I just walk off.
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I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.
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X-Men films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.
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We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.
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White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
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(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.
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Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.
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I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
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We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail.
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I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.
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Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
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I personally have a hard time with a lot of the creation stories that revolve around the creator being a white man. It seems very limiting to me. So God to me is... so limitless and magical and loving and beautiful.
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In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.
