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I used to say, read as much as you can. Now I say, read the best that you can, the stories that resonate with you, the books that are important to you. Try to read, not only as a reader, but also as a writer, to deconstruct how the author is telling his or her story.
Cristina Henriquez
Best
You
Try
Resonate
Important
Books
Say
Telling
Only
Writer
Also
Read
Reader
How
His
Author
Stories
Story
Much
Used
Now
Her
For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.
Cristina Saralegui
Life
Me
My Life
Promise
Life Story
Idea
American
Just
Story
Theory
They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.
Crystal Chappell
Love
Me
People
Love Story
Think
Other
More
Never
Weight
Written
Since
Been
Just
Story
Show
Each
Two
Two People
When I put on our U.S. kit, I do it for my family and for my country. But I understand now that I also do it for every single American girl out there who wants to see someone who looks like them - someone whose story reminds them of their own - when they watch their women's national team.
Crystal Dunn
Family
Women
Girl
Country
Single
National
Own
Every
Our
Out
See
Someone
Kit
Put
Reminds
Like
Also
Looks
Understand
American
National Team
Wants
Story
Them
Team
Who
Now
Whose
Watch
The great thing about writing 'Deadpool' is that he can demolish expectations and typical comic book conventions with monster truck force. There are few other characters who can transition so easily from one type of story to the next.
Cullen Bunn
Great
Book
Writing
Few
Other
Type
Monster
Typical
Easily
Characters
About
He
Truck
Great Thing
Force
Demolish
Comic
Comic Book
Expectations
Conventions
Story
Transition
Next
Who
Thing
The goal is to write a story that you're proud of and hope the fans like it as well.
Cullen Bunn
Hope
You
Fans
Write
Like
Well
Proud
Goal
Story
My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever... and never did publish it.
Cullen Bunn
First
Publish
Magazine
Never
Sale
Forever
Did
Short
Short Story
Story
Sat
On some level, every story draws something from life experiences. Most of the time, it's just a matter of me pulling bits and pieces of my own past to help give characters or settings a little more life.
Cullen Bunn
Life
Time
Me
Matter
Past
Own
Every
Settings
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Draws
Characters
Some
Life Experiences
Give
Something
My Own
More
Most
Pieces
Just
Experiences
Story
Little
Help
Level
Pulling
Horror used to be one thing, and I think that's starting to broaden - there can have subgenres, and other things can be going on in a horror story. In comics, you'll never get the 'Boo' effect in a comic; you can go for mood, atmosphere and personal tragedy to build the horror elements and sense of dread.
Cullen Bunn
You
Build
Sense
Think
Boo
Other
Broaden
Mood
Dread
One Thing
Atmosphere
Horror
Never
Comic
Comics
Go
Effect
Tragedy
Get
Personal
Going
Story
Used
Elements
Thing
Things
Starting
Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
Curt Flood
Though
About
General
Write
Environment
Institutionalized
Does
Existed
Itself
Pastime
May
Story
Lend
Apart
Treatment
We're going to break a story that there are people on the staff on the 9-11 Commission that didn't want the 9-11 Commissioners to know the details of Able Danger because of the potential to embarrass those commissioners.
Curt Weldon
People
Danger
Those
Embarrass
Details
Able
Potential
Know
Because
Commission
Going
Staff
Want
Break
Story
For 'Gender Studies,' I wrote that story in May and June of 2016. People have said to me, 'Oh, it's a political allegory,' and I think, 'Sure.' The political stuff is definitely there. But that's why I like fiction; there can be lots of different things going on, and it's all intertwined, and you can't separate out what's in what category.
Curtis Sittenfeld
Me
You
People
Political
Gender
Think
Intertwined
Definitely
Out
Allegory
Studies
Stuff
Like
Category
Wrote
Sure
Said
Lots
June
Going
May
Oh
Different
Fiction
Story
Separate
Different Things
Why
Things
For me, it's been a treat to interact with authors who were publishing when I was a young reader. Judy Blume once gave me a pep talk at a writing conference. I had a short story featured in the same anthology as Beverly Cleary. Magic.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Me
Writing
Treat
Young
Gave
Once
Pep
Magic
Featured
Had
Beverly
Talk
Reader
Judy
Were
Anthology
Been
Conference
Same
Authors
Short
Interact
Short Story
Story
Who
Publishing
Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves. That uplifting narrative - essentially equating the promise of America with his extraordinary life story - swept candidate Obama into the presidency.
Cynthia P. Schneider
Life
Best
Example
Own
Believe
Presidency
President
Extraordinary
President Obama
Ourselves
Promise
Obama
About
Potent
Life Story
Through
Narrative
His
America
Uplifting
Candidate
Essentially
Story
Us
Swept
Therefore
During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded in a very powerful reality: President Obama's own inspiring life story.
Cynthia P. Schneider
Life
Hope
Reality
Brilliant
Own
President
President Obama
Obama
About
Life Story
Inspiring
Powerful
Narrative
His
Campaign
Very
American
Story
Grounded
I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.
Cynthia Stevenson
Character
Think
Entertaining
About
Like
Story
When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
D. A. Pennebaker
You
Together
Editing
Stage
Sense
Way
Evidence
Finding
Exactly
Exactly What
Inventing
Putting
Makes
Audience
Making
Go
Itself
Going
Want
Happened
Happening
Story
Show
Eventually
Play
Present
I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
D. J. MacHale
Journey
Character
Together
Writing
Believe
Would
Find
Thread
Writers
Had
Individually
Instead
Ideas
Stories
Decided
Story
Them
Create
Multiple
Series
Whose
Actually
So many people look up to Jennifer Lawrence playing Katniss in 'The Hunger Games.' For them to look up to Rey and what she represents would be fantastic. She's a wonderful character... The reason I love her so much is she does all the fun stuff. She fights, runs and protects herself and has an incredible emotional story.
Daisy Ridley
Love
Character
People
Wonderful
Incredible
Herself
Hunger
Hunger Games
Would
Would-Be
Runs
Lawrence
Emotional
Stuff
Look
She
Protects
Does
Up
So Many People
Represents
Story
Them
Fantastic
Much
Fights
Games
Reason
Fun
Many
Fun Stuff
Jennifer
Jennifer Lawrence
Her
Playing
My story is one of millions, and the others aren't often told.
Dakota Meyer
Others
Often
Story
Millions
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
Dale Archer
You
Book
Reading
Over
Repeated
Hearing
Get
Stories
Cannot
Story
Even
If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.
Damian Lewis
You
Director
Amazing
Think
Incredible
Another
End
Up
May
Want
Story
Script
Fantastic
Then
Your
Play
Row
Playing
Third
What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
Damien Chazelle
Love
Great
You
Dance
Energy
Musicals
About
Sing
How
Stopping
Story
I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.
Damon Galgut
Book
India
About
Write
Passage
Been
Goes
Behind
Wanting
Story
Interesting
Creating
Novel
As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
Damon Lindelof
You
Matter
Way
Says
Tell
Find
Voice
Idea
Cliched
Sounds
Anybody
Story
Then
Original
Original Idea
What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.
Dan Ariely
You
Creative
Yourself
People
Better
Other
Ways
Okay
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Find
Able
About
More
Rationalize
Cheat
Because
Still
Than
Story
Storytellers
Creative People
Why
Right
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