Stories Quotes
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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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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
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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 sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
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Overnight success stories take a long time.
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I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories.
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Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
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Recently it's become much to my surprise, something that does happen. For example, I used to get almost all of my stories, and it's probably still true, from newspapers. Primarily from The New York Times. No one ever really thinks of The New York Times as a tabloid newspaper and it isn't a tabloid newspaper. But there is a tabloid newspaper within The New York Times very, very often.
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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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The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.
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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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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
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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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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 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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We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.
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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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I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.
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I love story songs because I've always loved books.
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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
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Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
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My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.
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There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.
