Stories Quotes
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Everything in a story should be credible.
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.
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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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The way Stanley Kubrick tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
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You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.
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For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.
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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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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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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
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In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.
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To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
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I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
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I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
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Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.
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Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
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I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.
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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
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All my jewelry has stories.
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I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.
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Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
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Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.
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A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.
