How well do you know the people who raised you? Look around your dining room table. Look around at your loved ones, especially the elders. The grandparents and the aunts and uncles who used to give yo...
I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.
A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music
But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.
If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at loo...
One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the come to me.
A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an act of imaginary consummation, that the story is born. This act wholly involves u...
For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them, cognitive function becomes a bore.
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When yo...
I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not...
Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.
My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
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?
When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.
[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
The stories we are destined to tell find us.
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