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“The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.”

Feels Writing Persons Important Character Stories Care Lying Individual Ability Core

Book:Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

Source: Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

“I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.”

Kind Stories Values Ability Kindness Car Good Story

Author:Rebecca Wells

“I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.”

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Author:Rebecca Wells

“Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.”

Whole Stories Reading Asks Imagination Ability Creative Written Reader Pages Whole Life Life Experience Written Word Creative Imagination

Author:Katherine Paterson

“People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.”

People Facts Stories Culture Strong Loses Ability Learning Teaching Hero Dues Myth Contemporary Plot Unhappiness Constructs Lifelong Heroines

Author:Guy Claxton

“Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to be lies and deception. You can believe it's the truth only after you question, exhaust every avenue, and find that their story checks out. If you're a patriot, it's your duty to always question your government anyway, at every turn. A patriot is loyal to his country and his countrymen, not his government.”

“Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.”

“Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.”

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Author:David A. Siegel

“I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.”

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Author:Karl Marlantes

“What the American people hope - what they deserve - is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics. For while the people who sent us here have different backgrounds, different stories, different beliefs, the anxieties they face are the same. The aspirations they hold are shared: a job that pays the bills; a chance to get ahead; most of all, the ability to give their children a better life.”

“My talent is working very hard and having a decent nose. A good nose for a story and the ability to get a little bit dirty sometimes, to get a little bit physical sometimes chasing a story. And to feel it, I mean I feel it.”

Feels Mean Littles Sometimes Hard Stories Bits Ability Talent Little Bit Dirty Noses Decent Chasing Working Very Hard

Author:Steve Bunce

“Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange our experiences...Experience has fallen in value. And it looks as if it is continuing to fall into bottomlessness.”

People Ifs Looks Stories Values Fall Wish Ability Taken Possession Tales Fallen Encounters Continuing Idealism Embarrassment

Author:Walter Benjamin

“All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.”

Stories Ability Influence Storytelling Literary Works Great Literary

Author:Michael Scott

“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.”

Needs Firsts Book Ideas Stories Form Ability Accepting Novel Guts Imperfect Uncertain Revision

Book:Conversations with Bernard Malamud

Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud

“I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.”

People Persons Different Stories Reality Ability Laughing Normal Making People Laugh

Author:Paddy Considine

“My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally. And the fact of the matter is that I had choices and chances and opportunities that were provided to me, based on the way I was able to direct my own decision-making. And what I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Stories Problem Ability Written Car Draws Hollywood Meetings Silly Insane Buying Despise Mechanic Pitching

Author:Jess Walter

“The value of market esoterica to the consumer of investment advice is a different story. In my opinion, investment success will not be produced by arcane formulae, computer programs or signals flashed by the price behavior of stocks and markets. Rather an investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.”

“I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.”

Way Trying Stories Dream Ability Attention Brain Models

Author:Amy Hardie

“One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can't be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story about choice, he retains the ability to practice choice.”

Ifs Knows May Persons Stories Home Choices Loses Ability Practice Taken Duty Possession Arguing Loved Ones

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“What serialized cable dramas have given us is the opportunity to not simply tell the same story with slightly different words and different costumes, every week. people are really mining the ability of storytellers to tell a long form story that goes from A to Z, and to trust that an audience will follow that. If they miss it, over the course of the week, they can watch it online or buy the DVD. There are so many different ways of interacting with it. Storytelling in television is getting more complex and more nuanced.”

“Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“I think science has a better story to tell than anyone else has been able to tell and that's because it's based on the rigorous winnowing that science and scientists are always doing in order to find out what's really happening. I think it's really good to encourage generally our ability to tell stories and that's a great skill that we come by naturally, so I'm excited about that.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.”

Knows Mean Children Stories Seems Justice Ability Laughing Underestimate

Author:Philip Pullman

“The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.”

People Way Humans Different Stories Use Turns Language Grows Human Beings Ability Growing Up Listening Creatures Complexes Being Different Eloquent

Author:Flemming Rose

“I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality. You are always representing human beings, their fears, their shortcomings, their braveries, their doubts, their loves, their abilities, their brilliance and those things inevitably lead to bigger political systems, foreign policy and crime and religion. It's an action film. We are not taking a stance about big government.”

“Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.”

Stories Hurt Ability Business Fire Customers

Author:Seth

“I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.”

Firsts Believe Stories Order Ability

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“I wish someone had told me that my stories are really mine to tell. In other words, anything that I think is important or that has moved me has the ability to move somebody else.”

Thinking Important Stories Moving Wish Ability Mines Moved

Author:Rita Dove

“Having certain limits - not too many, but certain limits on an ability to tell a story - makes us work harder, me and my writers. Sometimes I watch a giant movie with a $250 million budget and I think they feel kind of bloated, and that if they'd been leaner and meaner they might've had better storytelling.”

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Author:Vince Gilligan

“I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story.”

Needs Mean Stories Ability Drama Storytelling Twists Trajectory

Author:Asghar Farhadi

“The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.”

Giving Stories Actors Challenges Ability Happened Complexes Dimensions

Author:Benjamin Avila

“I'm a very visual person and I love the ability to tell stories through images.”

Persons Stories Ability Visuals

Author:Mandana Dayani

“I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.”

Thinking Stories Ability Subjects Documentaries

Author:Leslie Cockburn

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