I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.
We are reaching levels of high experiential comfort and our standards will keep rising. We want to feel, we want to experience, we want to connect, we want intelligence, and we want to play; Ladies an...
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
Storytelling is the very soul of humankind made plain for all to experience.
Asking storytellers to be genuine is like, asking a chain smoker to quit smoking . Habit of lying isn't easy to fix. Pretend as believing is like selling cigarettes. What else we could do, if we want...
Storytelling is an essential part of our cultural and human identity...when we become afraid of stories outside the mainstream, I believe we have lost a valuable part of our cultural inheritance and g...
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe so...
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.
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes and ears open and who likes to talk. It always worked. It was no use asking men; they simply were not...
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.
Properly told, stories are able to operate on two levels. On the surface, they deal with involving a range of facts related to a given time and place, a local culture and a social group--and it is th...
There will always be reservations, things one must leave out, events one can’t explain without handing over a full map of one’s life, unfolding it, making clear that all the lines and contours stand f...
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
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.
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...
[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.
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.
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