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- If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes…
- Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it,…
- Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history…
- An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
- Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
- I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
- I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
- The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
- The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously,…
- Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live…
- I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the…
- Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character…
- Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to…
- The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas…
- The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot…
- When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've…
- Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
- A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing…
- What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
- They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that…
- Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.
- Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure,…
- People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob…
- When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but…
- Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
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- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe