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““I’m a novelist,” Ruth said. “I can’t help it. My narrative preferences are all I’ve got.””

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The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

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“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?”

Christopher Bram

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If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

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I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

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We can never tell what is in store for us.

Harry S. Truman

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Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them…

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Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must…

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“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted…

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Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

Chuck Palahniuk

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“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.”

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