Stories Quotes
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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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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 not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.
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Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
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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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Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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I think people are really starting to rebel against that. And I think there's going to be more and more gray areas. Hopefully that means we'll see more stories with characters that could be interchangeable with men.
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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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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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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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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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The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
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Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.
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One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your 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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It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.
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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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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
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I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
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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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If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
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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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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
