Alan Dean Foster Quotes, Stories Quotes, Research Quotes

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

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I could write stories just as rotten.

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It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.” “I haven’t got it with me,” Sylvie whispered. “Then I won’t cry,” said Bruno manfully.

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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original. But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I'd love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.

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The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

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But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

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The advance of freedom is the great story of our time

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Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.

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To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and 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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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

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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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PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

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Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

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

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Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.

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The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

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