Stories Quotes
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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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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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I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
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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 make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
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I’m sorry, but I don’t know any stories.
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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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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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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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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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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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Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.
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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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I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.
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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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It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
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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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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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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
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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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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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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.
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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
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My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for...
