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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

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Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

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I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

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A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.

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Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

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A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

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Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

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I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

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