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"If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me."
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"At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It's like distilling something."
"Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries."
"Experience is the catalyst for all great stories."
"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."
"When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories."
"As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business. I am a storyteller. Daydreaming is the best part of my job."
"I made this story up to make me feel better. Now I'm writing it down. It's not true."
"The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City."Old Bailey nodded, sagely: "What, the big white buggers? They're down there. I had a friend lost a head to one of them." A moment of silence. Old Naeiley handed the statue back to the Marquis. Then he raised his hand, and snapped it, like a crocodile hand, at the Carabas. "It was OK," gurned Old Bailey with a grin that was most terrible to behold. "He had another."
"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid, a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."
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