Stories Quotes
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When you don’t need anything anymore, the only thing you need is stories, and songs, and beauty, and spectacle. That’s the good stuff. The stuff that reminds us who we are.
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Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.
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That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.
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I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.
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Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.
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Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.
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Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.
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You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
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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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I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or the play or the cartoon or whatever they're seeing. They don't imagine that there are actually people that go and do that for a living.
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If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.
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We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in.
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You hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my case, I didn't experience any of that, probably because the way I treated them. I was like, 'Okay, what do you want to know?' So I kept going back to their offices on a regular basis.
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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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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
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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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That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.
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I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.
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I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.
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All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
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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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History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
