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"It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning."
"My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all."
"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."
"God made (human beings) because he loves stories."
"This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark."
"Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story."
"There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story."
"It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me."
"Marketing, when done well, is about story telling."
"I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story."
"The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life."
"We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are."
"I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes."
"Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal."
"Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story"
"There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind."
"Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person."
"The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either."
"It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything."
"Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful."
