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It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
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It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.
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It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
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It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
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Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of...
Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of
Glory days - yeah, they'll pass you by,
Glory days - in the wink of a young girl's eye.Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Glory Days -
Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
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Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
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Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.
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Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
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Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.
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Most of my rings are not expensive at all; they're just things that remind me of people that gave 'em to me. And they all have their own stories, their own meanings.
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My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely.
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My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
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My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
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