"I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story."
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"I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story."
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"Whatever your story, the world does not need to mould you."
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"Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now."
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"Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is."
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"When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another."
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"There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven."
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"The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn't going to change just because we've gone electronic. What is changing is that now we're allowing corporations to tell our stories for us."
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"First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became almost secondary, but it was kind of a background music for my life."
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"God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism."
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"Have good examples and stories to drive home your content."
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"It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story."
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"You can use your story, or your story can use you."
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"When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it."
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"When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story."
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"My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk."
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"If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet."
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"As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time."
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"If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were."
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"The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story."
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