Stories Quotes
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I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible in some way.
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Stories are not complicated. They are, in fact, deceptively simple. But like anything simple, they are difficult to create.
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Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
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It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely tolerant, generous, and forgiving. All things considered, it wouldn't hurt if we were, too.
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There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
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So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
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The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.
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We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
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A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
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I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.
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Stories? We all spend our lives telling them, about this, about that, about people … But some? Some stories are so good we wish they’d never end. They’re so gripping that we’ll go without sleep just to see a little bit more. Some stories bring us laughter and sometimes they bring us tears … but isn’t that what a great story does? Makes you feel? Stories that are so powerful … they really are with us forever.
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I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.
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You don't really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift in direction and she falls through the net that has so far held her in place.
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Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.
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A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
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People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.
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Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.
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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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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.
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Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
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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.
