Quotes with story-tellers

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  • Samuel Beckett I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Anne Tyler I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Anita Diamant I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Sylvia Plath I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Stephen Hawking I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
    The Guardian (15 May 2011)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Adam Sandler I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Bruce Coville I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Ann Beattie I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Robertson Davies I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, ''I will tell you a story,'' and then he passes the hat.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • David Mitchell I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • John McGahern I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Burnie Burns I think, ultimately, the story of Rooster Teeth is going to be one of longevity.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Anita Desai I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Buchi Emecheta I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Alice Munro I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Aaron Spelling I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Barry Bonds I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
    Barry Bonds
    American professional baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Beth Gutcheon I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.
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  • Carol Shields I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
    Middlesex (2003) 217
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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