"This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars."
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"I know a lot of great success stories of those who were excellent problem-solvers because they had found a need that they could fill well. As a result, they built organizations around them and those organizations had belief systems that could be described as a form of leadership."
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"However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger story."
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"I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell."
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"Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice."
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"I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories."
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"When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts."
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"I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road."
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"Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback."
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"some stories don't need telling"
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"In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story."
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"The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story."
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"Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was really exciting to see the sketches and to see the story [The Kite Runner] shaping up visually."
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"The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined."
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"You say their stories, it is gift they give you."
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"I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way."
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"So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one."
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"There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous."
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"I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail."
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"Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell."
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