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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For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

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

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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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The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

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The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.

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

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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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Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

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Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

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

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I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

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A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

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