I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.
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...
Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation by models of...
The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become.
Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.
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...
Storytelling has been around since men and women were first created. Stories give meaning to life and provide people with history, information, and entertainment.
When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.
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.
I learn about how stories work for the same reason that soldiers learn how to strip a rifle.You should, too.
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.
Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.
...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.
Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always be smarter writers than you, and there will always be, you know, people wh...
But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.
Facts & figures go to the brain. And, the brain tends to forget . Stories go straight to the heart. They make us feel. And, the heart remembers.
Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.
Love that Literature.
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.
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...