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“I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so I made up names. These were the first stories I wrote. Even as a little kid I was thinking about torture.”

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Author:George R. R. Martin

“What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.”

Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

“Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed to have a dog or cats. The only pets I could have were turtles. So, I had an entire toy castle filled with dime-store turtles. I gave them all names, and since they were living in a toy castle, I decided they were all knights and kingsand I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles. I decided later to recast it with actual human beings.”

“For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.”

Writing Made Book Stories Night Waiting Dark My Own Sleep Behinds Childhood Sitting Hated Ran Adulthood Made Up Stories

Author:Anne Tyler

“If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.”

Ifs Knows Made Stories Age Five Fool Myth Made Up Stories

Author:Suetonius

“Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.”

World Made Done Stories My Own Made Up Stories

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

Made Stories Science Universe Peace Technology Libertarian Storytelling Crafts Atoms Storyteller Telling Stories Personal Stories Made Up Stories

Book:Out of silence: selected poems

Source: Out of silence: selected poems

“No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).”

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Author:J. M. Coetzee

“If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.”

Ifs Made Stories Night Bed Storm Noise Owl Made Up Stories

Book:Vampire Blood Trilogy (The Saga of Darren Shan)

Source: Vampire Blood Trilogy (The Saga of Darren Shan)

“Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.”

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Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.”

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Book:The Shoemaker's Wife

Source: The Shoemaker's Wife

“Recognize that whether you are worthy or not is all a made-up 'story'...Nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it...There's no one who comes around and stamps you 'worthy' or 'unworthy'. You do that. You make it up. You decide it...If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.”

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Author:T. Harv Eker

“I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.”

Made Stories Mother Streets Mines Grew Grew Up My Friends Dull Killers Curtains Neighbour Serials Serial Killer Lace Burglars Made Up Stories

Author:Nina Bawden