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- Nov 07, 2020
Story Quotes
Every story is worth telling well.
One line here is about recognizing a story too rarely told, another about a lasting preference for tales of the underdog and survival. For similar reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the book. That doesn't happen with a play. Even performances are different every night.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've waited for a novel from Charles Yu with eager anticipation since being bowled over by his 2006 short story collection, 'Third Class Superhero.'
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
It was really great to be part of the Philip Roth story as a woman in a very complete way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose 'This Little Life' and 'Brick Lane' both have things in common in that they have a female protagonist very much at the centre of the story, and they're subjectively told.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
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- Nov 07, 2020