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"In the story of the prince and the frog, there's always a frog. This story ... it has no frog."
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"Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
People
"The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets."
Creativity
"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
God
"I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here."
Love
"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."
Time
"I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it."
Creativity
"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
Want
"What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character."
God
"I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out."
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"Don't the great tales never end?""No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later or sooner."
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"A great story is impossible to forget."
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"At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It's like distilling something."
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"Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries."
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"Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them."
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"Experience is the catalyst for all great stories."
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"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist."
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"The making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer..."
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"What you need to remember is that there's a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not."
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"When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories."
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