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When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come back to you. J. Courtney Sullivan

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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. J. J. Abrams

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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. J. K. Rowling

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The first story I finished was when I was six years old. J. K. Rowling

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A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh. J. Michael Straczynski

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When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins. J. R. Celski

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Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey. Jack Lowden

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I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice. Jack Ma

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A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment. Jack Vance

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Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it. Jack Wagner

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The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal. Jack Welch

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I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page. Jacqueline Woodson

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When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature. Jacqueline Woodson

'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively. Jacqueline Woodson

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I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well! Jacques Pepin

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It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to go in this story, where's she going to end up?' Then the story has to fill in the in-between, and that comes as I'm starting it. Jaime Hernandez

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