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  1. Salman Rushdie _ Two Years Eight Months and

    These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.
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  2. Eudora Welty _ One Writer's Beginnings

    Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.
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  3. Eudora Welty _ One Writer's Beginnings

    It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...
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  4. P.G. Wodehouse

    The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong first act he had practically nothing to do in the second act, he would walk out. Now, then, can I twist the story so as to give him plenty to do all the way through? I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before he starts writing it and asking himself it is all right . I mean, once you go saying to yourself, "This is a pretty weak plot as it stands, but if I'm such a hell of a writer that my magic touch will make it okay," you're sunk. If they aren't in interesting situations, characters can't be major characters, not even if you have the rest of the troop talk their heads off about them.
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  5. David Mamet _ On Directing Film

    The audience can endorse the triviality of modern art, but they can't like it."
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  6. Pete McCarthy _ McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of

    That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?
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  7. Cormac McCarthy _ The Road

    Soll ich dir eine Geschichte erzählen? Nein. Warum nicht? Der Junge sah ihn an und wandte den Blick ab. Warum nicht? Diese Geschichten sind nicht wahr. Das müssen sie auch nicht sein. Es sind Geschichten. Ja. Aber in den Geschichten helfen wir andauernd jemanden, dabei tun wir das in Wirklichkeit gar nicht. Warum erzählst du mir nicht eine Geschichte? Ich will nicht. Okay. Ich habe keine Geschichten zu erzählen. Du könntest mir eine Geschichte über dich selbst erzählen. Die Geschichten über mich kennst du alle. Du warst dabei. Du hast Geschichten in deinem Inneren, von denen ich nichts weiß. Du meinst, so was wie Träume? Ja. Oder einfach Sachen, über die du nachdenkst. Ja, aber Geschichten sollen doch schön sein. Nicht unbedingt. Du erzählst immer schöne Geschichten. Kennst du denn keine schönen? Meine haben mehr mit dem wirklichen Leben zu tun. Und meine nicht? Deine nicht. Nein. Der Mann betrachtete ihn. Und das wirkliche Leben ist ziemlich übel? Was denkst du denn? Tja, ich denke, es gibt uns noch. Es sind viele schlimme Sachen passiert, aber es gibt uns immer noch. Ja. Du findest das nicht so toll. Es ist okay.
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  8. Joseph Conrad _ Heart of Darkness

    Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams...
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  9. Samuel Beckett _ Molloy

    {I}f you set out to mention everything you would never be done, and that's what counts, to be done, to have done. Oh, I know, even when you mention only a few of the things there are you do not get done either, I know, I know. But it's a change of muck. And if all muck is the same muck that doesn't matter, it's good to have a change of muck, to move from one heap to another, from time to time, fluttering you might say, like a butterfly, as if you were ephemeral.
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  10. Samuel Beckett _ Molloy

    {Y}ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.
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  11. Stephenie Meyer _ The Host

    Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.
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  12. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.
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