Quotes 101 till 120 of 402.
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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.
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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?
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'
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I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.
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I'm telling you, back in those Wendover days, it wasn't that hard to get it out of me.
Radio From Hell (August 31, 2006) -
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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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 -
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.
Aint It Cool News interview -
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
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If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
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If China were to explode, I'd want to be there in a flash. If there's a big story, I want to be there.
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If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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If so, our posture would be as follows: we published the story and said it was true, but now we are going to nominate it for a Pulitzer — now that's serious business.
Post Reporters Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporters Prize (19 April 1981) -
If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
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If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don't. Telling things as they are is a critical part of building this trust.
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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Campaign statement in Fresno, California (10 September 1952) -
If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader.
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