"If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like."
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"Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively."
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"Words are how we think; stories are how we link."
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"The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression."
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"People who understand everything get no stories."
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"When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often the dream becomes troubling; sometimes it even turns into a nightmare. At times like these, you may want to test the truth of your theories by doing The Work on them. The Work always leaves you with less of your uncomfortable story. Who would you be without it? How much of your world is made up of unexamined stories? You'll never know until you inquire."
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"All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories."
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"And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings."
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"My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music."
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"There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world."
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"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
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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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"Caution is the lower story of prudence."
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"The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives."
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"My favorite movie is Closer and Love Story."
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"It's all about letting the story take over."
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"I think the thing I really got from Ginsberg was that you can tell a story through kind of painting pictures with words. And when I found out that you could have a profession doing that, it was thrilling to me. It just became my passion immediately, playing with words and poetry."
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"You need a story to displace a story."
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"Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things."
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"The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter."
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