Stories Quotes
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At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.
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Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.
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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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As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
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Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.
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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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All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.
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I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.
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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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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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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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Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
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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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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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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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Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.
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I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.
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The songs are really stories and so you can tell them at any time in your life.
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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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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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One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
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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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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.
