Storytelling (2001)
Maria Thayer: Amy (segment "Fiction")
Quotes
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Amy (segment "Fiction") : Why do people have to be so ugly, write about such ugly characters? It's perverted. I know you all think I'm being prissy, but I don't care. I was brought up in a certain way, and this is... mean-spirited.
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Marcus (segment "Fiction") : This is bullshit! Her story was the truth!
Joyce (segment "Fiction") : Right.
Sue (segment "Fiction") : It's unbelievable!
Elli (segment "Fiction") : It's clichéd!
Amy (segment "Fiction") : It's disgusting!
Vi : But it happened!
Mr. Scott : I don't know about what happened, Vi, because once you start writing, it all becomes fiction. Still... it certainly is an improvement over your last story. There is now at least a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Amy (segment "Fiction") : [critiquing a story about a disabled person] It kind of reminded me a little of Faulkner, but East Coast and disabled.
Lucy (segment "Fiction") : Or Flannery O'Connor. She had multiple sclerosis.
Joyce (segment "Fiction") : And Borges... he was blind.
Ethan (segment "Fiction") : Updike has psoriasis.