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"Life is a book."
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Personal Development
"Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions - which become your life."
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Personal Development
"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."
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Personal Development
"The scenario where the sprawling anti-hero gets his comeuppance and the champion walks off into the sunset with his arm around the prize, usually a woman, is a pleasing one. This media personification of what a hero is all about used to be the common norm. Examining past events can confirm this convoluted outlook that sees the baddie being portrayed as some sort of evil manifestation sent to cause havoc by any means possible."
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Personal Development
"How the story is read is very important is it soft, is it in dry way or smooth..."
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Personal Development
"But that is another story."
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Personal Development
"When you're telling a story, you're trying to connect to people in a particular way The way in which you guys have inhabited this world, this universe, has made you part of it, part of the story. You are living in Firefly. When I see you guys, I don't think the show is off the air. I don't think there's a show; I think that's what the world is like. The story is our lives."
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Personal Development
"Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals."
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"Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush."
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"The principal advantage of narrative writing is that it assists us place our life experiences in a storytelling template. The act of strict examination forces us to select and organize our past. Narration provides an explanatory framework. Human beings often claim to understand events when they manage to formulate a coherent story or narrative explaining what factors caused a specific incident to occur. Stories assist the human mind to remember and make decisions based on informative stories. Narrative writing also prompts periods of intense reflection that leads to more writing that is ruminative. Contemplative actions call for us to track the conscious mind at work rendering an accounting of our weaknesses and our strengths, folly and wisdom."
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"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."
Work
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
Talent
"They march into the future to the rhythm of the past."
Time
"Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble."
Knowledge
"Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades."
Change
"Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation."
Legacy
"I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached."
History
"When the first book out my sister-in-law read it and we were chatting at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and she said, "Oh my God, chapter six, sex and a murder," and her five year old wandered into the kitchen and said, "Sixty hamburgers?"
Humor
"You can't trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can't trust you."
Trust
"Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think."
Writing
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