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"My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life."
"I feel akin to [William] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably strange interplay among human beings that constitutes "scenes" in his plays, and constitutes "story" in prose fiction."
"Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty."
"In a sense, I may not consciously know what I'm doing. I feel that I'm telling a story. I'm a kind of medium by which something is transmitted."
"My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention."
"Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite."
"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
"Trace Adkins doesn't talk too much, but when he does he's got great stories. He's lived a great life."
"Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story."
"When a woman wins an Oscar for telling a story from a woman's point of view, that's going to be the win. That's the moment."
"It may have taken nine years, and a whole lot of wrong turns along the way, but their story felt complete at last. Because, finally, she was his."
"I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him-they were part of his “road,” the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work."
"Every story you tell is your own story."
"This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories."
"He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him."
"Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter —maybe less than a lot, but always more than none."
"And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you."
"I spy with my little eye a great story."
"As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know."
"This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever."
