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“[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.”

Writing Ends Stories Lasts Realizing Lines Happenings Paragraph Horrific

Author:John Darnielle

“I'm such a huge fan of television and what's happening in television, right now. You are able to visit characters and visit a story, week to week, push things in a different way than you can in a film, and you are able to go deeper, simply because you have more time. I'm just excited to do that. It's always good to do new things.”

Way Different Character Stories Able Film Week Fans Television Huge Right Now Happenings Excited Deeper Different Ways More Time New Things

Author:Dakota Fanning

“The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.”

Men Way Years Mind Firsts Done Stories Happenings Originals Cinema Great Men Copying Great Year Pastiche

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.”

Way Writing Stories Causes Novel Effects Happenings Experience One Way Discovering Sequence Cause And Effect Stumbling

Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.”

Stories Past Realizing Figures Happenings Your Past Invisible Monsters

Book:Invisible Monsters: A Novel

Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel

“I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.”

Knows Want Feels Sometimes Stories Felt Truth Is Happenings I Want You

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. .. The pictures get jumbled, you tend to miss a lot. And then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed.”

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Author:Tim O'Brien

“Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.”

Way Trying Stories Feelings Happenings Work Out Best Way

Author:Garth Nix

“One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.”

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Book:An Abundance of Katherines

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.”

Knows Firsts Book Stories Remember Pleasure Rooms Happenings Connoisseur

Book:Broken Music: A Memoir

Source: Broken Music: A Memoir

“..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren’t funny.”

Knows Feels Believe Moments Stories Wanted Faces Secret Boys Worry Laughing Loneliness Happenings Your Face Denied Tire Treacherous Peeling Curiousity

Book:Prep: a novel

Source: Prep: a novel