Stories Quotes
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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 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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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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The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
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If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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They say a story loses something with each telling.
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You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.
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You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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What are the stories you want people to tell about you?
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All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.
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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
