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"An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings."
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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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"We are all the construction of a story and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of the plot. ['Everybody his story']"
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"And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."
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"I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do."
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"Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them."
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"That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies."
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"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."
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"Stories are a communal currency of humanity."
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"Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be."
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"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."
Enemy
"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
Events
"I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story."
Art
"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."
Fight
"Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions of other kinds as well."
Society
"The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask."
Philosophy
"I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect."
Friendship
"Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?"
Society
"I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years."
Family
"Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million spermatozoa could be lifted on a single spoon. Every pickle-jar (you will forgive me if I become florid for a moment) contains, therefore, the most exalted of possibilities: the feasibility of the chutnification of history; the grand hope of the pickling of time!"
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