It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.
A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling.
(pl. ) of Story
Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.
Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.
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...
Our stories are our best gifts--treasure and share them!
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...
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Roger left the cricket stumps and they went into the drawing room. Grandpapa, at the first suggestion of reading aloud, had disappeared, taking Patch with him. Grandmama had cleared away the tea. She...
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 eat stories like grapes.
You can never know enough about your characters
History is the stories we tell about the past.
a story is ready when it falls from your face
What doesn't kill us makes a good story.
We create words, words create wonders.
While the stories are fiction, the journey is real.