Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.
Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doin
An event without a good presentation is like a pizza without cheese.
Once upon a time, there was a story. But no one to tell it.
Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.
Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.
When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.
To hell with facts! We need stories!
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.
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...
Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
it was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory." p 380
A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world. (Peter Nimble)
The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories.
We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions...
Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher..
I am a storyteller. The type that went from place to place, gathered people in the square and transported them, inspired them, woke them up, shook their insides around so that they could resettle in a...
(...) a director should tell a story that is close to his own existential experience.
A tale spinner's goal is entertainment.
The presentation scene itself we skip. It is not a good idea to interrupt the narrative too often, since storytelling works by lulling the reader or listener into a dreamlike state in which the time a...
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