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.
Miss Appleby, her library books, and her story-telling sessions were very popular with all the children in Heavenly Valley. To Nancy and Plum they were a magic carpet that whisked them out of the drea...
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...
Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.
Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.
A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.
...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.
Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something deep within us, the capacity to conceptualize, objectify and find p...
I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.
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...
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.
One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.
In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success
There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.
In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.
Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or to anyone who has never known that world.
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