I learn about how stories work for the same reason that soldiers learn how to strip a rifle.You should, too.
People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.
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There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the...
Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.
I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.
A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors...
Everyone's got a different story.
The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the storie...
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Stories are epically important to how we view and interact in the world around us. We define ourselves, our abilities and even our goals by the stories we believe and share. These stories become part...
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.
All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.
I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.
There were no public articulations of these humiliations, so we took refuge in accidental occasions to weave our resentments and hatreds into little stories that lost their impact as soon as they were...
You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are al...
Warning...well-loved stories are habit forming...
A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.
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