Stories Quotes
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You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
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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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If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
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How do we change the world? Change the story.
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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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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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In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.
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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
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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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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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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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Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.
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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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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
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her stories make you believe in the power of love
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I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.
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I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.
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Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
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We people are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.
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I love story songs because I've always loved books.
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I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply and directly, it turns out that this author is great and the story is wonderful.
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The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
