Stories Quotes
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For me, when my agents and reps send me a script, I read it through, just for the story purpose of it, and then I read it again to think of my character and see if it's something that I'm interested in bringing to life.
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Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
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I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.
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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
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That's the most important thing for me in TV, telling the story to as many people as we can.
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What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.
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Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power, which is both warm and destructive. We're especially drawn to the power. Many of the images of technology are about making us more powerful, extending what we can do. Unfortunately, 95 percent of this is hype, because I think we're powerful without it.
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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story
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As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
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My job is more about helping people tell their stories in ever more interesting ways.
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Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.
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Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.
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The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
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But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
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The truth of the story lies in the details.
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I apologize for my terrible interview skills. I wasn't prepared to expose stories about something so special and wonderfully private that is happening in my life. I guess a part of me wishes that I'd never have to and that maybe I could protect this special time. I was dreaming.
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I look forward to breaking huge stories on InfoWars.
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Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.
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I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.
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Empathy is the key to great stories.
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One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
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I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
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The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
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There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.
