The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.
My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it….By telling you anything at all I’m at least believing in you….Because I’...
But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.
...have always been known for their storytelling. It appears to be the supreme expression of their spirit. Perhaps they know that, without a story, there could be no nation, no culture, no civilizatio...
Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.
What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other.
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...
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...
My TV show enraged people. I had prostitutes on, and I treated them like real people.... I was fired from Maclean's after I wrote a piece called 'Let's Stop Hoaxing The Kids About Sex'. Now I'm the 'b...
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...
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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...
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don't close, they continue.
Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
We're wired for story. In a culture of scarcity and perfectionism, there's a surprisingly simple reason we want to own, integrate, and share our stories of struggle. We do this because we feel the mos...
The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories.
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.