"I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently."
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"A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration."
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"My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places."
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"I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time."
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"Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly."
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"When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture."
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"Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine."
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"Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia."
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"I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element."
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"I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life."
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"We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living."
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"My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing that you're terrified of, you bring it about - and even worse."
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"The Freebie cost virtually nothing. We funded the movie ourselves, people got paid, but were mostly paid in the back end, we used one of the cheaper cameras we could get. The movies have a look to them, you can sorta point out the really low-budget movie. So even if the heart of the movie and the story are really, really great, they always sorta feel a little cheap."
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"The way I prepare is through script analysts and back story. I create back story for a character based on script analysts, filling in as many details as possible. I also do a lot of research."
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"I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen."
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"I write short stories. I write every day."
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"Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course that he had left - or, rather, the true course he had obscurely been seeking all this time. (Last line of the story The Adventure of a Photographer )"
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"Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other."
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"You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand."
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"Even if the experience in my stories is not autobiographical and the actual plot is not autobiographical, the emotion is always somewhat autobiographical. I think there's some of me in every one of the stories."
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