With grace and beauty, feel.
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.
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...
I can change the story. I am the story.
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw t...
The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast - Mississippi, Alabama and s...
But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.
Asking storytellers to be genuine is like, asking a chain smoker to quit smoking . Habit of lying isn't easy to fix. Pretend as believing is like selling cigarettes. What else we could do, if we want...
I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.
All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.
Were the stories we told each other true? Who knows? At the best of times, a story is a slippery thing. Perhaps that was why it changed with each telling. Or is that the nature of all stories, the rea...
Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.
Storytelling has been around since men and women were first created. Stories give meaning to life and provide people with history, information, and entertainment.
By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.
You can fix anything but a blank page.
Stories are a communal currency of humanity.
Marriageability was the original title of The Harvest.
I learn about how stories work for the same reason that soldiers learn how to strip a rifle.You should, too.