Stories Quotes
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I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.
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My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.
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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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I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.
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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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I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get sucked into feeling something.
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There are no facts, only stories.
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My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.
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I've always been drawn to the extremes of human behavior, and crime fiction is a great way to explore the lives and stories of fascinating people.
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Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.
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You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.
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So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them.
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Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's like watching a 'making of' within the story. You see the physical aspect, the construction of things.
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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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Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story
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It is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
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I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.
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The quiet square seemed busy with their ghosts, their stories, and it made me feel peaceful in some arcane way. Life had washed me here on this strange errand. Maybe the best thing to do was to just let it show me what it had in mind.
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Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.
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Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.
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The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.
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If we do not share our stories and shine a light on inequities, things will not change.
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There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
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Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.
