Stories Quotes
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I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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I try not to look at stories on the Internet because I don't want to psych myself out. I kinda half to stay off the Internet. I'm not thick-skinned enough. I get too sensitive. I don't want it to effect what I'm doing.
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It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that.
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[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It's not just about stories. It's about philosophy. It's about criticizing the world. It's about deconstructing the world around you.
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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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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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We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.
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People express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my babies. It is the case that makes me the proudest.
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I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
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I think tone gives birth to the story.
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To approach the stories in this way is to rob each author of his own integrity as an author and to deprive him of the meaning that he conveys in his story.
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I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.
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A lot of times, films tell stories about the time we live in. So when making history, it´s just as important to give the female perspective as well as the male. We need female voices. Take a risk. Be personal.
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Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.
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Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.
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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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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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You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.
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I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.
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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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Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.
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I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.
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Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.
