Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.
Listen to what speaks to your heart.
There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.
Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.
In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.
Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.
A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
(...) a director should tell a story that is close to his own existential experience.
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...
I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.
Marriageability was the original title of The Harvest.
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. [; November 16, 1857]
Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.
That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?
These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.
[I]f you set out to mention everything you would never be done, and that's what counts, to be done, to have done. Oh, I know, even when you mention only a few of the things there are you do not get do...
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
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