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"For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe."
"Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them."
"A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week."
"I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up."
"There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others."
"Listen to my story and everything will come out true"
"If a story is in you, it has to come out."
"Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives."
"The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story."
"Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story."
"It never gets any easier. But I will get stronger. Because my story is far from over."
"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good."
"A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession."
"The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it."
"For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story."
"Gratitude is what we are without a story."
"There are no truths. Only stories."
"The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures."
"If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure."
"Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything.""
