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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The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
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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 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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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
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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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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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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
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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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Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
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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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Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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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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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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The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
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This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the Holy Spirit for us while we slept. We wake up already immersed in a large story of creation and covenant, of Israel and Jesus, the story of Jesus and the stories that Jesus told. We let ourselves be formed by these formative stories, and especially as we listen to the stories that Jesus tells, get a feel for the way he does it, the way he talks, the way he treats people, the Jesus way.
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I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
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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.
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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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Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.
