Stories Quotes
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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
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Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.
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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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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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I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply and directly, it turns out that this author is great and the story is wonderful.
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
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Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.
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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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I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
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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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Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.
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It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
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I love story songs because I've always loved books.
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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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It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.
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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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I’m sorry, but I don’t know any stories.
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If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.
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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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The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was full of lies. (Winfrey said) the belief this book is changing the lives of people trumps the fact that maybe the story is a fake. You would expect somebody in her position would take the ethical stand.
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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.
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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 essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
