"Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told"
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"Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form"
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"The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . ."
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"The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint."
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"There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees."
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"It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.” “I haven’t got it with me,” Sylvie whispered. “Then I won’t cry,” said Bruno manfully."
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"Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself."
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"I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel."
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"But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story."
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"Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories."
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"Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all."
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"The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?"
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"With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is."
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"People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court."
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"Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it"
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"You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice."
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"I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion."
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"As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes."
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"In life, every ending is just the start of another story."
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"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."
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