A tale spinner's goal is entertainment.
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...
When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don...
The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become.
Things worth telling - take time
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.
Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the come to me.
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
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...
Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
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.
I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.
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.
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.
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.