Stories Quotes
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her stories make you believe in the power of love
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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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History was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one’s own life.
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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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At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.
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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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There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.
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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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The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.
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As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.
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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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A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.
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I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.
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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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I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known stories.
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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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One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
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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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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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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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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 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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It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.
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One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
