"If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards."
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"This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected."
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"Ideas come and go, stories stay."
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"I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there."
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"The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story."
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"You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world."
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"I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way to tell stories... If you come up through a newspaper as I did, your whole goal is to get a story on the front page, and you only get something on the front page if it's unusual."
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"I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell."
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"I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do."
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"Start telling the stories that only you can tell."
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"We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going."
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"My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever"
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"Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time."
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"The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story."
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"Scars are stories, history written on the body"
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"Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story."
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"Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or maybe change the stories with a fresh infusion of specificity."
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"A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side."
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"The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carried out - on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories."
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"History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun."
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