"Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up."
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"The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all."
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"Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk of anything else?"
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"Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden."
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"The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom."
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"...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in."
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"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."
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"Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason."
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"I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do."
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"I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls."
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"Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork that I'm interested in."
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"What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me within the constraints of storytelling. And I have narrowly defined storytelling."
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"I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell."
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"The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations."
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"Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human."
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"History is the story of warfare between secret societies."
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"I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird."
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"In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories."
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"British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography."
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"...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are."
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