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"As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections."
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"What so tedious as a twice-told tale?"

"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."

"Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters."

"The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics."

"Experience is the catalyst for all great stories."

"Everyone wanted me to feed them that story-darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too."

"Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many."

"Magician is the best storyteller in the world."

"Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie."
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"The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction."

"He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ..."
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