I was imprisoned, and no-one freed me.I cried for help, and no-one freed me.Eventually, I shook off my chains and I returned.They said, 'Why do you no longer love us?'I said, 'I realized that you have...
What’s missing from the literature of our species are the stories of the peasants. The filthy illiterate. Those with no firm address, no surname. No one to impress, nothing to lose. But the poor tell...
(pl. ) of Story
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...
Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.
You begin with other people's stories and end up with your own.
Walk in truth. Leave footprints of honesty.
A story could lead you into a different world for a while. It might be a world where a foolish youngest son could turn into a brave and clever hero, or a beaten young woman could end up as a wise lead...
While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights)
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture.
...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is...
Find peace in knowing.
That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.
One may learn a great deal of a people by the stories they tell of others.
I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is...
Intuition is truth.
We speak for those who cannot speak. We have a duty to tell the stories for those who do not have the advantages that we have to tell stories. We must not speak falsely. The stories that we are entrus...
Love is a dance.
As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our iss...
If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.
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