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"It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?"
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"What so tedious as a twice-told tale?"
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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."
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"Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait."
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"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."
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"The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics."
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"Experience is the catalyst for all great stories."
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"Everyone wanted me to feed them that story-darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too."
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"Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many."
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"Magician is the best storyteller in the world."
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"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 most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."
Crime
"Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren."
Life
"Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."
Memory
"Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it's language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I've come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is our unending search, our abiding desire for immortality."
Philosophy
"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
Writing
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
Awareness
"It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?"
Storytelling
"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."
Woman
"As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify."
Writing
"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
Man
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