Storytelling began as a way for humans to relay information, from where to find food sources to the benefits of familial bonding, because fictional stories were the easiest way to memorize and communi...
Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart.
Creativity is nature. Nature is creativity.
Stop making excuses and start making history.
Reading sparks writing.
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...
A good presentation = Conviction + Story + Message. Subject does't matter.
Breathe in the beauty all around you.
There will always be reservations, things one must leave out, events one can’t explain without handing over a full map of one’s life, unfolding it, making clear that all the lines and contours stand f...
A great story can change the world.
The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.
The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.
Write what speaks to your soul.
The most powerful words in English are, Tell me a story.
Writing is like breathing for my soul.
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
Experience is the catalyst for all great stories.
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.
Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers...
This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myse...
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