"I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre."
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"When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story."
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"There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world."
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"Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest."
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"You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen."
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"I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts."
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"Every person you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and a dream to share."
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"There's nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it's the coolest product they've ever brought home in their lives. That's what keeps me going."
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"Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us."
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"The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories."
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"But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down."
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"What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."
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"Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story."
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"And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up."
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"If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell."
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"End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines."
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"Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out."
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"Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories"
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"Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work."
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"I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland."
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