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My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
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My stories are never quite good enough.
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On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?
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One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.
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Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
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People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.
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People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'
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People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.
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People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to tell.
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People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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Sad stories make good books.
The Kite Runner -
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
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Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
Faceboek (2014)
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