Warning...well-loved stories are habit forming...
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
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I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.
I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes...
Some stories are incomplete but they are beautiful...
It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.
Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differenc...
Always choose love over fear.
People who understand everything get no stories.
Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.
But we [writers] are crucial. That is what I hope you have learned. We listen for and collect and share stories. Without stories there is no nation and no religion and no culture. Without stories of b...
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
To be fair to them, they were only after something that walled them off from the past and from people in general, not something that offered any connection that might prove painful or human. Thet want...
People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.
October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never diffic...
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...
I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed...
Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passi...