Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
What's usual for us may not be the same for everyone. I'm inspired by lives and stories of all those amazing people who overcome extraordinary challenges each day to live what we see as an ordinary li...
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All the great stories are about obsession and people who are obsessed.
I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers' imagination room to roam. That way, every reader sees the story through their own eyes.
What doesn't kill us makes a good story.
A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
a story is ready when it falls from your face
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
Stories choose us, not the other way around.
Are infinite possibilities a storyteller's worst enemy or best friend? I'd say a bit of both really and one must be grateful for this paradox.
A casket full of stories I presentFrom the ocean of my feelings and its moodSome bring with it a tempest of tearsSome make you sit and broodThere are a few pearls of optimism tooWhich are colourful an...
Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.
Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.
And so he set about restoring them, using the tricks he had learned over the years. He went to them, speaking to each of them in tones so low that none of the others could hear, getting their names, g...
But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)
To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes and monsters, because this turned them into stori...
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