"My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living."
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"Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories."
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"We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves."
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"But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass."
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"But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world."
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"I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination."
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"Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them."
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"If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing."
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"All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake."
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"Most of my short stories are fantasy."
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"There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories."
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"You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!"
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"It's much more fun as an actor, as well. If everything is on the page and you're spoon-feeding an audience you feel like your job is merely to say the words clearly because the structure of the story will take care of itself."
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"Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes."
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"I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards."
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"It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points."
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"Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear."
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"Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why."
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"Any work of art must first of all tell a story."
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"Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story."
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