Stories Quotes
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I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories.
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How do we change the world? Change the story.
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I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.
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Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.
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We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.
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The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.
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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
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I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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A miracle is an invitation into a new story.
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In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
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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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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
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Overnight success stories take a long time.
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But the thing is that I’m in love with Rafael’s story. I think I understand when Adam says that all our stories are different but in some ways our stories are all the same. I never really got that. But when I start to read Rafael’s journal, it’s as if I can see myself. It’s better than a mirror.
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I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.
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Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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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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The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.
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The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.
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I learned a lot about Ottoman court, and it was very Shakespearian in essence. Stories like the one in Hamlet did happen several times in the 500 years of Ottoman history.
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I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
