Stories Quotes
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One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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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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There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.
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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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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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Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
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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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The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
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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 like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.
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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
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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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I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.
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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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Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
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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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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
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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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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
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A miracle is an invitation into a new story.
