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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. - Raymond

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. – Raymond Chandler

Other quotes by Raymond Chandler

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Film / Filmmaking / Movies
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Raymond Chandler
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Ability is what youre capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. – Raymond Chandler

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Attitude
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Raymond Chandler
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Art
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Raymond Chandler
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Other Quotes from
Storytelling
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Time, the earth, and death are living things, as stories are — so long as other living things exist to feed them, and for them to nourish in their turn. – Robert Bringhurst, 1995, Introduction to The Dreamer Awakes by Alice Kane

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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best – and therefore never scrutinize or question. – Stephen Jay Gould

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Storytelling

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. – Willa Cather

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Storytelling

It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story. – Native American saying

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