"The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the world is composed of theatres, or whatever... For me, the world is simply composed of stories, when I look, that's what I see."
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"I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of."
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"There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story."
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"Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling."
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"But the smoking is very frustrating. Who knows where it will go; where the story will go; where the character will go? There's still lots of options."
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"The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done."
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"I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories."
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"Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene."
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"There's nothing more important than a good story."
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"You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain."
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"You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue."
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"The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me."
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"Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth."
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"If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story."
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"Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing."
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"I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans."
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"If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour."
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"I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it."
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"I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story."
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