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"Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen."
"When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it."
"To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life."
"Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects."
"The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories."
"Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a story about who he was. Expressing yourself is big business."
"This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling."
"Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited."
"Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable."
"As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones."
"Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered."
"The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in."
"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."
"There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story."
"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called."
"Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story."
"It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real."
"Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it."
"One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this."
"The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books."
