Stories Quotes
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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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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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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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I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.
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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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A miracle is an invitation into a new story.
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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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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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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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It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.
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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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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.
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The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
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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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Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
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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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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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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
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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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One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
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When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
