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Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. Sergio Aragones | top
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That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? Lara Flynn Boyle | top
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So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them. Neil Gaiman | top
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters. Nadine Gordimer | top
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Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories. Chris Van Hollen | top
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I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world. Lynn Johnston | top
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Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly. Paul Kane | top
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The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring. Casey Kasem | top
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We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication. Casey Kasem | top
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Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience. Casey Kasum | top
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Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies. Mort Kondracke | top
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words. Wally Lamb | top
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. Tanith Lee | top
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If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability. Murray Gell-Mann | top
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Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power. Joyce Maynard | top
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I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist. David McCullough | top
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. Flannery O'Connor | top
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I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see. Patton Oswalt | top
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I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time. Fred Saberhagen | top
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever. Ed Smith | top
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic. Tabitha Soren | top
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There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done. Theodore Sturgeon | top
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All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting. Marisa Tomei | top
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I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers. Tina Turner | top
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Some stories are true that never happened. Elie Wiesel | top