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#stories

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I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.


Stephen Greenblatt


#book #exploit #great #hold #i

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.


Dave Barry


#am #faces #fact #feel #happy

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.


Steven Spielberg


#beginning #end #forgotten #how #middle

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.


Ann Beattie


#being #certain #confusions #disappointments #feel

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.


Augusten Burroughs


#collection #effects #father #finished #holiday

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.


Aaron Carter


#chopped #cut #get #make #media

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.


Charlotte Church


#got #just #lot #some #stories

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.


Mindy Kaling


#head #help #i #i do #life

I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.


Harlan Coben


#big #bore #club #fire #going

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.


Joel Coen


#background #community #everything #growing #growing up






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