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"In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild."
"Our stories are different; our pain is the same."
"A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there."
"Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context."
"Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication."
"A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors."
"Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come only with difficulty."
"I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe."
"I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own."
"All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling."
"The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence."
"You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America."
"A lot of the challenge with TV, as opposed to making movies, is that you have to leave room for the characters in the story to tell themselves. Sometimes you don't know where a character is going to go and what's going to happen to them until you've seen the actor take that part and make it their own."
"he beauty of this world [of comics] is there are so many stories to tell, and there's so many wonderful characters. Wonderful characters we haven't even begun to introduce - it's a world that is infinitely expandable."
"Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show, and, arguably, you could say we dipped our toe in an instance or two."
"Just use the same quotes. It's the same story."
"Goldie [Hawn] is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories and in the right places, too."
"There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you."
"With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment."
"As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world."
