Stories Quotes
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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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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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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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The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
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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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Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.
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I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.
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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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Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.
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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.
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Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.
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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 can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
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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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Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
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The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.
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The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.
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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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The songs are really stories and so you can tell them at any time in your life.
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There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.
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Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
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If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.
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I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them down, if you don’t make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard.
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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.
