Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers.
History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make thin...
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In the end, we begin.
Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever a writer sets down can help or harm a community of which he or she is a part. When I write I c...
Storytelling began as a way for humans to relay information, from where to find food sources to the benefits of familial bonding, because fictional stories were the easiest way to memorize and communi...
You know how it feels to think you've ruined everything. You're hoping if my story has a happy ending there's hope for yours too...
Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will.
Stories are masks of God.That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.Stories show us how to bear...
The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people.
It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.
I spoke of the tragic illusion of perpetuity, but, no, my friends, it is a comic one. The ludicrous plot in which we are all trapped. The ancient Greeks referred to plot as mythos, attributing the ran...
Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting.
إن أغلب الناس قد عاشوا حدثًا واحدًا على الأقل خلال حياتهم يعد حدثًا فريدًا حقًا، ويصلح تمامًا لصياغته في قصة قصيرة.
God is the creator of all good plot twists!
You begin with other people's stories and end up with your own.
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reas...
Every day sings its own song.
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
A book is simply a snap shot of the full story.
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