Stories Quotes
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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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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
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When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
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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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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 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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Overnight success stories take a long time.
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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 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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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
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I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories.
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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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Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.
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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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Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?
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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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I love story songs because I've always loved books.
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Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.
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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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Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
