- My Life
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
- Essence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tel Aviv was established in 1909 by a group of secular Jewish families; Judaism's origin story is about 2,000 years older.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020