"People forget facts, but they remember stories."
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"Sherlock and Watson are a love story"
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"When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love."
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"If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives"
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"A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes."
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"Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story"
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"One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story."
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"The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means."
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"If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor."
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"Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus."
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"Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see."
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"Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence."
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"Another story must begin!"
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"The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art."
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"Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story."
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"Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words."
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"The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills."
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"Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories."
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"We are our choices. Build yourself a great story."
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"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."
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