Will Allison
Will Allison
Will Allison is an American novelist and editor. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Long Drive Homeand What You Have Left...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 October 1968
CountryUnited States of America
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Independent presses and bookstores give access to literature specific to a place. Readers can find stories they need.
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The album has a lot of true stories in there. We did three full tours last year, so there were a lot of people that we met that we felt needed to have songs written about them.
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I've heard stories of people who have done this and who have a garage full of stuff that just sits. I refuse to believe that will be the end of my idea.
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I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.
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I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.
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My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.
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Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go on living I have to tell stories, that stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world
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Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.
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Why write stories? To join the conversation.
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I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
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My mother has stories of leaving me in the bath as small kid, like a 3-year-old, and there being mirrors on the side, and her going to get a towel and coming back in, and me making faces at myself, like, 'Now I'm happy. Now I'm sad.'
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Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged.
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My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.
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I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.