"Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story."
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"This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)"
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"Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?"
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"Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end."
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"Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters."
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"She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago."
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"Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out."
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"Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can."
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"Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works."
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"I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about."
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"Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story"
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"Country music has the great stories."
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"My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted."
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"The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth."
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"The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form."
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"Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is."
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"The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas, so they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it."
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"I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories."
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"The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before."
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"The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present."
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