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"If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply personal and familiar."
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"A great story is impossible to forget."
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"At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It's like distilling something."
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"Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries."
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"Experience is the catalyst for all great stories."
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"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."
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"When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories."
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"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."
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"I made this story up to make me feel better. Now I'm writing it down. It's not true."
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"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."
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"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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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
Creativity
"And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness."
Desire
"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."
Life
"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."
Business
"Life is knowledge, livin it is Succes!"
Success
"The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index."
Environment
"Time is the only critic without ambition."
Time
"I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool."
Time
"Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping."
Memory
"Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals."
Art
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