"Everyone's story matters."
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"If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded."
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"For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings."
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"Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine."
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"I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life and their back stories and all that nonsense, because it never means anything."
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"I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas."
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"A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories."
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"I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do."
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"Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told."
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"I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story."
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"I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed."
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"Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on."
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"I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told."
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"...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story."
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"For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it."
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"Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him."
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"So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories."
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"She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best."
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"When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know exactly what the ending will be before I begin, like with the story "A Brief Encounter With the Enemy." It was all about the ending - that's what motivated me."
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"Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object."
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