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"They weren't true stories, they were better than that."
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"To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else."
"Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait."
"Everyone wanted me to feed them that story-darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too."
"If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong."
"We are all the construction of a story and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of the plot. ['Everybody his story']"
"And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."
"A story has value whether it's true or not."
"I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do."
"We owe it to each other to tell stories."
"The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction."
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"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."
"I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all."
"It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you."
"Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head."
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