storytelling

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
3cdf7a3	Every great love starts with a great story...	storytelling	Nicholas Sparks
265de0c	You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.	your-gift inspirational story-teller storytelling	Erin Morgenstern
9c3b4bb	No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.	explanations storytelling patience	Lewis Carroll
3640572	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 doing it.	story writing eye-contact profession creative-process storytelling introverts	John Green
c2e6f2c	There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.	truth-telling truth on-fiction storytelling	Doris May Lessing
5a412ea	We tell ourselves stories in order to live.	storytelling	Joan Didion
c83259c	Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.	reading writing storytellers storytelling novelists writers	Lisa See
60e9c85	If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.	storytelling	Rudyard Kipling
28e22ab	A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.	writing beginning end creative-process storytelling	Graham Greene
f76ea21	My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.	heritage storytelling stories	Tahir Shah
42dfcd2	I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.	on-writing storytelling	Philip Pullman
6e2bc00	It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...	literature reading writing inspiration storytelling creativity	Eudora Welty
7a9424d	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.	storytelling	Stephen King
09094a5	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.	storytelling story-telling	Umberto Eco
d3c7ba1	But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.	storytelling	Diane Setterfield
d36ca2e	My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.	storytelling	Diane Setterfield
9bb3040	I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.	on-writing storytelling stories	Stephen King
80ce7ad	The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.	truth storytelling	Karen Joy Fowler
7de5176	Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.	writing eudora-welty storytelling listening	Eudora Welty
37e9606	But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leaving out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.	truth storytelling	Robin McKinley
f89ae4f	Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.	storytelling	John Green
fc3850b	Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams...	mind storytelling	Joseph Conrad
4a2d22d	A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.	storytelling	Norton Juster
bb2fb74	People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.	storytelling	Neil Gaiman
ac95af4	To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative -- the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.	escape reading fiction interpretation real-world narrative escapism storytelling	Umberto Eco
b09829f	Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.	story storytelling	Charles de Lint
d33fe5d	Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world. Mrs Winterson objected to what I had put in, but it seemed to me that what I had left out was the story's silent twin. There are so many things that we can't say, because they are too painful. We hope that the things we can say will soothe the rest, or appease it in some way. Stories are compensatory. The world is unfair, unjust, unknowable, out of control. When we tell a story we exercise control, but in such a way as to leave a gap, an opening. It is a version, but never the final one. And perhaps we hope that the silences will be heard by someone else, and the story can continue, can be retold. When we write we offer the silence as much as the story. Words are the part of silence that can be spoken. Mrs Winterson would have preferred it if I had been silent. Do you remember the story of Philomel who is raped and then has her tongue ripped out by the rapist so that she can never tell? I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words. I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself.	silence truth narrative storytelling trauma	Jeanette Winterson
a966473	All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.	writing on-writing storytelling stories	Umberto Eco
b6a96d1	Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.	writing storytelling readers	Rebecca Solnit
6dc6394	If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.	storytelling stories	John Berger
b8f3fb8	"People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it."	storytelling	Cecelia Ahern
3cb0444	I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.	writing storytelling jungle	Edgar Rice Burroughs
fc52d0f	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.	fiction narrative storytelling stories	Oliver Sacks
5878eaa	I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles - I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that - I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours	storytelling	Jack Kerouac
7077dbf	[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--' [Opal] 'Was?' [J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.	storytelling	Maria V. Snyder
73b96c3	If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?	storytelling	Lloyd Alexander
c89acc1	What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.	irony marriage women empowerment love disharmony subjection discord matrimony storytelling inequality gender courtship sarcasm	Charlotte Brontë
c8d9146	It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.	storytelling	Haruki Murakami
b29fefc	Stories are a communal currency of humanity.	storytelling	Tahir Shah
3ae4d06	By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.	men women dishonesty storytelling inequality gender evil wickedness	Geoffrey Chaucer
c2eec6a	It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls and ceilings. The weight of what has been said can lie heavily on what might yet be said and suffocate it. By the river the air carries the story on a journey: one sentence drifts away and makes way for the next.	storytelling secrets	Diane Setterfield
55c562f	Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.	talents storytelling	Stephenie Meyer
c132b7a	"The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong first act he had practically nothing to do in the second act, he would walk out. Now, then, can I twist the story so as to give him plenty to do all the way through? I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before he starts writing it and asking himself it is all right . I mean, once you go saying to yourself, "This is a pretty weak plot as it stands, but if I'm such a hell of a writer that my magic touch will make it okay," you're sunk. If they aren't in interesting situations, characters can't be major characters, not even if you have the rest of the troop talk their heads off about them."	writing plot creative-process storytelling	P.G. Wodehouse
31fac1e	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.	truth storytelling	Tahir Shah
ef2399f	"Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." [ ; November 16, 1857]"	writing precision storytelling	Henry David Thoreau
c9c5e9c	She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.	storytelling	Scott Westerfeld
cad2813	I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? The tale tells how the Lords of Manva hunted & gathered roots & cooked their suppers while they were camped in exile in the foothills of Sul, but it doesn't say what their wives & children were living on in their city left ruined & desolate by the enemy. They were finding food too, somehow, cleaning house & honoring the gods, the way we did in the siege & under the tyranny of the Alds. When the heroes came back from the mountain, they were welcomed with a feast. I'd like to know what the food was and how the women managed it.	housekeeping storytelling gender	Ursula K. Le Guin
133a94e	Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.	fairytales storytelling	Gregory Maguire
a42e17c	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'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.	writer writing storytelling	Margaret Atwood
3cc80cf	...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.	storytelling stories	Jacqueline Carey
17fde01	Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.	storytelling	Arthur C. Clarke
f461883	You bound him to you with your courage and your tales. You hold him to you now. You captured a wild creature when you had no place you could keep him.	storytelling	Juliet Marillier
6a9c05c	My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves.	storytelling	Tahir Shah
55f2582	The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never carry on right through the point where whatever it is that threatens your life actually takes it -- and get anybody to believe you. The world is full of sceptics.	storytelling	Beryl Markham
ba2d275	Think about the word destroy. Do you know what it is? De-story. Destroy. Destory. You see. And restore. That's re-story. Do you know that only two things have been proven to help survivors of the Holocaust? Massage is one. Telling their story is another. Being touched and touching. Telling your story is touching. It sets you free.	storytelling	Francesca Lia Block
9d2d89a	"I can see how I could write a bold account of myself as a passionate man who rose from humble beginnings to cut a wide swath in the world, whose crimes along the way might be written off to extravagance and love and art, and could even almost believe some of it myself on certain days after the sun went down if I'd had a snort or two and was in Los Angeles and it was February and I was twenty-four, but I find a truer account in the Herald-Star, where it says: "Mr. Gary Keillor visited at the home of Al and Florence Crandall on Monday and after lunch returned to St. Paul, where he is currently employed in the radio show business... Lunch was fried chicken with gravy and creamed peas"."	truth storytelling	Garrison Keillor
8f94395	"The most powerful words in English are, "Tell me a story."	imagination narrative storytelling	Pat Conroy
5816381	Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something deep within us, the capacity to conceptualize, objectify and find patterns, thereby to create the flow of events and perceptions that find perfect expression in fiction. We are built this way, we create stories by reflex, unstoppably. But this elegant system really works best when the elements of the emerging story, whether is is being written or being read, are taken as literal fact. Almost always, to respond to the particulars of the fantastic as if they were metaphorical or allegorical is to drain them of vitality.	writing genre storytelling horror	Peter Straub
4bfba5f	I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-- that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale. (Introduction to Ender's Game)	writing storytelling	Orson Scott Card
4fdf90f	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 most alive when we're connecting with others and being brave with our stories - it's in our biology.	courage storytelling stories	Brené Brown
bdc9d5a	But I have already told the beginning, so right now it's the middle. And Zeb is in the middle of the story about Zeb. He is in the middle of his own story. I am not in this part of the story; it hasn't come to the part with me. But I'm waiting, far off in the future. I'm waiting for the story of Zeb to join up with mine. The story of Toby. The story I am in right now, with you.	story storytelling	Margaret Atwood
c2f4de3	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...	story storytelling	Gregory Maguire
c206911	Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.	truth good-writing life-experience storytelling	Ernest Hemingway
3782afb	I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.	relationships storytelling	Pat Conroy
d8d034a	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?	storytelling	Pete McCarthy
b8b06c0	The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.	writing perspective storytelling	William Manchester
5461976	dstnh hrgz bh pyn nmy rsnd. rwy st khh m`mwl Sdysh r dr nqTh y jdhb w hnrmndnh qT` my khnd; khl hmh sh hmyn st.	story storytelling	J.D. Salinger
dd38e11	The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories.	storytelling	Sarah Vowell
abe96b5	"Francie always remembered what that kind teacher told her. "You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you're making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up."	writing truth writing-advice teachers storytelling stories	Betty Smith
b2ef16a	Disenchantment is the blessing of becoming yourself.	storytelling	Rebecca Solnit
03f3ee2	This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me.	narration storytelling	J.D. Salinger
d20fdf6	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.	words writing language storytelling	Madeleine L'Engle
45de2e0	Miss Appleby, her library books, and her story-telling sessions were very popular with all the children in Heavenly Valley. To Nancy and Plum they were a magic carpet that whisked them out of the dreariness and drudgery of their lives at Mrs. Monday's and transported them to palaces in India, canals in Holland, pioneer stockades during the Indian wars, cattle ranches in the West, mountains in Switzerland, pagodas in China, igloos in Alaska, jungles in Africa, castles in England, slums in London, gardens in Japan, or most important of all, into happy homes where there were mothers and fathers and no Mrs. Mondays or Marybelles.	libraries storytelling	Betty MacDonald
bd43369	In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.	storytelling	Jules Verne
9ee78e6	I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.	writing storytelling stories	Audrey Niffenegger
d2c94d5	I can change the story. I am the story.	storytelling	Jeanette Winterson
8e13136	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.	storytelling	Salman Rushdie
40d413f	Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.	leadership storytelling	Frank Herbert
dd0c8fd	Were the stories we told each other true? Who knows? At the best of times, a story is a slippery thing. Perhaps that was why it changed with each telling. Or is that the nature of all stories, the reason for their power?	story storytelling mythology	Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
c485c13	The stories shatter. Or you wear them out or leave them behind. Over time the story of the memory loses its power. Over time you become someone else. Only when the honey turns to dust are you free.	time love honey storytelling	Rebecca Solnit
48be7d0	I learn about how stories work for the same reason that soldiers learn how to strip a rifle. You should, too.	storytelling stories	Mike Carey
7ccdb54	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 interested enough in other people and the ordinary doings of people. That is why the real historians of Africa had always been the grandmothers, who remembered the lineage and the stories that went with it.	historians storytelling gossip	Alexander McCall Smith
fcf8b64	The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.	openness intuition storytelling	Harold Bloom
b6af906	The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught.	story-teller small-details storyteller storytelling story-telling	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
92913f0	"Roger left the cricket stumps and they went into the drawing room. Grandpapa, at the first suggestion of reading aloud, had disappeared, taking Patch with him. Grandmama had cleared away the tea. She found her spectacles and the book. It was Black Beauty. Grandmama kept no modern children's books, and this made common ground for the three of them. She read the terrible chapter where the stable lad lets Beauty get overheated and gives him a cold drink and does not put on his blanket. The story was suited to the day. Even Roger listened entranced. And Deborah, watching her grandmother's calm face and hearing her careful voice reading the sentences, thought how strange it was that Grandmama could turn herself into Beauty with such ease. She was a horse, suffering there with pneumonia in the stable, being saved by the wise coachman. After the reading, cricket was anticlimax, but Deborah must keep her bargain. She kept thinking of Black Beauty writing the book. It showed how good the story was, Grandmama said, because no child had ever yet questioned the practical side of it, or posed the picture of a horse with a pen in its hoof. "A modern horse would have a typewriter," thought Deborah, and she began to bowl to Roger, smiling to herself as she did so because of the twentieth-century Beauty clacking with both hoofs at a machine. ("The Pool")"	story storytelling horse children-s-books stories	Daphne du Maurier
e0c46eb	Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story.	storytelling	Zora Neale Hurston
d71b68e	"It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, "Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife."	opening narrator the-black-prince iris-murdoch dramatic narrative meta storytelling	Iris Murdoch
67fbacd	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 for long days and nights when things were bad or good, or when things were too small to be described at all: when things just were. This is a life.	narrative storytelling	Colm Tóibín
ce352d1	One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the come to me.	writing imagination what-ifs storytelling writers	Madeleine L'Engle
2a3dfc6	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 these specifics that tend to bore us whenever they lie outside of our own experience. But then, a layer beneath the particulars, the are hidden: the psychological, social and political themes that transcend the stories' temporal and geographical settings and are founded on unvarying fundamentals of human nature.	specifics universalism storytelling stories	Alain de Botton
a765b3d	"Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: "Tell the history of our time through the people who make it."	writing leadership motivation narrative storytelling	Walter Isaacson
f80c234	Stories were heirlooms in these parts.	leadership inspiration motivation narrative legacy storytelling parenthood	Robert Kurson
79f4f8c	[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 done either, I know, I know. But it's a change of muck. And if all muck is the same muck that doesn't matter, it's good to have a change of muck, to move from one heap to another, from time to time, fluttering you might say, like a butterfly, as if you were ephemeral.	meaning life storytelling	Samuel Beckett
1ae5db9	[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.	writing storytelling	Samuel Beckett
4ec478b	The audience can endorse the triviality of modern art, but they can't like it.	audience modern-art storytelling	David Mamet
d3486c7	So (and this would have happened earlier, but I am only remembering it now): I am visiting her one afternoon.	nonlinear the-only-story storytelling memory	Julian Barnes
31507ba	Philosophic thoughts allow people to use human reason and imagination to consider eternal matters and explore the ramifications of their own transience. American author Joan Didion postulated that we tell ourselves stories in order to live. Conceivably a personal crisis propels a person to delve into creating a guiding philosophy for living with reduced mental and emotional turmoil. Alternatively, perhaps we tell stories to examine, explain, and justify our failures.	story story-of-life story-of-my-life story-of-your-life writing-memoir telling-stories story-of-a-soul memoir-writing storytelling	Kilroy J. Oldster
0e50ee6	Soll ich dir eine Geschichte erzahlen? Nein. Warum nicht? Der Junge sah ihn an und wandte den Blick ab. Warum nicht? Diese Geschichten sind nicht wahr. Das mussen sie auch nicht sein. Es sind Geschichten. Ja. Aber in den Geschichten helfen wir andauernd jemanden, dabei tun wir das in Wirklichkeit gar nicht. Warum erzahlst du mir nicht eine Geschichte? Ich will nicht. Okay. Ich habe keine Geschichten zu erzahlen. Du konntest mir eine Geschichte uber dich selbst erzahlen. Die Geschichten uber mich kennst du alle. Du warst dabei. Du hast Geschichten in deinem Inneren, von denen ich nichts weiss. Du meinst, so was wie Traume? Ja. Oder einfach Sachen, uber die du nachdenkst. Ja, aber Geschichten sollen doch schon sein. Nicht unbedingt. Du erzahlst immer schone Geschichten. Kennst du denn keine schonen? Meine haben mehr mit dem wirklichen Leben zu tun. Und meine nicht? Deine nicht. Nein. Der Mann betrachtete ihn. Und das wirkliche Leben ist ziemlich ubel? Was denkst du denn? Tja, ich denke, es gibt uns noch. Es sind viele schlimme Sachen passiert, aber es gibt uns immer noch. Ja. Du findest das nicht so toll. Es ist okay.	storytelling stories	Cormac McCarthy
da1135d	For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story.	storytelling	Markus Zusak
2221841	When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.	storytelling	Walter Dean Myers
59df2a3	An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns - but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver.	storytelling thought	Robert Bringhurst
bbf1cd1	"Marriageability" was the original title of "The Harvest."	storytelling	Amy Hempel
5f1ee64	I would have written this next part into the story if anybody would have believed it. But who would have? I was there and I didn't believe it.	storytelling	Amy Hempel
7132078	Story telling or teachable moments, provides us with a vast reference base of real life antidotes for possible future problems. They not only entertain and give us a resource of proven solutions, but they also help shape and mold our character. Therefore, when we don't take our time to communicate with our kids, then we rob them of critical life lessons that we and our forefathers learn the hard way - lessons that they would needlessly have to learn through trial and error themselves.	life-lessons family-conversations life-antidotes pep-talk proven-solutions teachable-moments talking-with-children trial-and-error real-talk guidance real-life warnings storytelling parenting	Drexel Deal
67ebb5c	Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is really the only proper way to begin a story--the only way that really smacks of romance and fairyland--	magic l-m-montgomery fairy-tale storytelling	L.M. Montgomery
ca28f2a	"Fairy tales have been with us for a very long time.	kate-forsyth storytelling	Kate Forsyth
5b584ca	A related point: The job of the imagination, in making a story from experience, may be not to gussy the story up but to tone it down. The fact is, the world is unbelievably strange and human behavior is frequently so weird that no kind of narrative except farce or satire can handle it. The function of the storyteller's imagination sometimes is simply to make it more plausible.	fiction writing life storytelling	Ursula K. Le Guin

Every great love starts with a great story...

Nicholas Sparks

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You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

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Erin Morgenstern

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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

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Lewis Carroll

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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 doing it.

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John Green

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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

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Doris May Lessing

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We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

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Joan Didion

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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

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Lisa See

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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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Rudyard Kipling

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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

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Graham Greene

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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

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Tahir Shah

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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

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Philip Pullman

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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...

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Eudora Welty

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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.

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Stephen King

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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.

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Umberto Eco

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But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

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Diane Setterfield

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My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.

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Diane Setterfield

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I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

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Stephen King

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The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

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Karen Joy Fowler

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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

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Eudora Welty

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But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leaving out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

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Robin McKinley

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Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.

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John Green

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Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams...

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Joseph Conrad

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A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

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Norton Juster

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People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

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Neil Gaiman

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To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative -- the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

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Umberto Eco

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Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

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Charles de Lint

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Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world. Mrs Winterson objected to what I had put in, but it seemed to me that what I had left out was the story's silent twin. There are so many things that we can't say, because they are too painful. We hope that the things we can say will soothe the rest, or appease it in some way. Stories are compensatory. The world is unfair, unjust, unknowable, out of control. When we tell a story we exercise control, but in such a way as to leave a gap, an opening. It is a version, but never the final one. And perhaps we hope that the silences will be heard by someone else, and the story can continue, can be retold. When we write we offer the silence as much as the story. Words are the part of silence that can be spoken. Mrs Winterson would have preferred it if I had been silent. Do you remember the story of Philomel who is raped and then has her tongue ripped out by the rapist so that she can never tell? I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words. I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself.

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Jeanette Winterson

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All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.

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Umberto Eco

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Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

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Rebecca Solnit

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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

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John Berger

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"People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it."

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Cecelia Ahern

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I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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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.

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Oliver Sacks

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I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles - I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that - I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours

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Jack Kerouac

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[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--' [Opal] 'Was?' [J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.

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Maria V. Snyder

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If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

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Lloyd Alexander

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What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

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Charlotte Brontë

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It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.

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Haruki Murakami

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Stories are a communal currency of humanity.

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Tahir Shah

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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls and ceilings. The weight of what has been said can lie heavily on what might yet be said and suffocate it. By the river the air carries the story on a journey: one sentence drifts away and makes way for the next.

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Diane Setterfield

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Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.

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Stephenie Meyer

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"The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong first act he had practically nothing to do in the second act, he would walk out. Now, then, can I twist the story so as to give him plenty to do all the way through? I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before he starts writing it and asking himself it is all right . I mean, once you go saying to yourself, "This is a pretty weak plot as it stands, but if I'm such a hell of a writer that my magic touch will make it okay," you're sunk. If they aren't in interesting situations, characters can't be major characters, not even if you have the rest of the troop talk their heads off about them."

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P.G. Wodehouse

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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.

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Tahir Shah

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"Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." [ ; November 16, 1857]"

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Henry David Thoreau

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She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

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Scott Westerfeld

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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? The tale tells how the Lords of Manva hunted & gathered roots & cooked their suppers while they were camped in exile in the foothills of Sul, but it doesn't say what their wives & children were living on in their city left ruined & desolate by the enemy. They were finding food too, somehow, cleaning house & honoring the gods, the way we did in the siege & under the tyranny of the Alds. When the heroes came back from the mountain, they were welcomed with a feast. I'd like to know what the food was and how the women managed it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.

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Gregory Maguire

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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'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.

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Margaret Atwood

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...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.

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Jacqueline Carey

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Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.

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Arthur C. Clarke

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You bound him to you with your courage and your tales. You hold him to you now. You captured a wild creature when you had no place you could keep him.

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Juliet Marillier

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My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves.

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Tahir Shah

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The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never carry on right through the point where whatever it is that threatens your life actually takes it -- and get anybody to believe you. The world is full of sceptics.

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Beryl Markham

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Think about the word destroy. Do you know what it is? De-story. Destroy. Destory. You see. And restore. That's re-story. Do you know that only two things have been proven to help survivors of the Holocaust? Massage is one. Telling their story is another. Being touched and touching. Telling your story is touching. It sets you free.

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Francesca Lia Block

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"I can see how I could write a bold account of myself as a passionate man who rose from humble beginnings to cut a wide swath in the world, whose crimes along the way might be written off to extravagance and love and art, and could even almost believe some of it myself on certain days after the sun went down if I'd had a snort or two and was in Los Angeles and it was February and I was twenty-four, but I find a truer account in the Herald-Star, where it says: "Mr. Gary Keillor visited at the home of Al and Florence Crandall on Monday and after lunch returned to St. Paul, where he is currently employed in the radio show business... Lunch was fried chicken with gravy and creamed peas"."

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Garrison Keillor

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"The most powerful words in English are, "Tell me a story."

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Pat Conroy

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Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something deep within us, the capacity to conceptualize, objectify and find patterns, thereby to create the flow of events and perceptions that find perfect expression in fiction. We are built this way, we create stories by reflex, unstoppably. But this elegant system really works best when the elements of the emerging story, whether is is being written or being read, are taken as literal fact. Almost always, to respond to the particulars of the fantastic as if they were metaphorical or allegorical is to drain them of vitality.

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Peter Straub

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I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-- that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale. (Introduction to Ender's Game)

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Orson Scott Card

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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 most alive when we're connecting with others and being brave with our stories - it's in our biology.

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Brené Brown

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But I have already told the beginning, so right now it's the middle. And Zeb is in the middle of the story about Zeb. He is in the middle of his own story. I am not in this part of the story; it hasn't come to the part with me. But I'm waiting, far off in the future. I'm waiting for the story of Zeb to join up with mine. The story of Toby. The story I am in right now, with you.

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Margaret Atwood

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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...

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Gregory Maguire

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Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.

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Ernest Hemingway

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I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

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Pat Conroy

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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?

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Pete McCarthy

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The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.

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William Manchester

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J.D. Salinger

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The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories.

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Sarah Vowell

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"Francie always remembered what that kind teacher told her. "You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you're making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up."

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Betty  Smith

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Disenchantment is the blessing of becoming yourself.

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Rebecca Solnit

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This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me.

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J.D. Salinger

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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.

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Madeleine L'Engle

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Miss Appleby, her library books, and her story-telling sessions were very popular with all the children in Heavenly Valley. To Nancy and Plum they were a magic carpet that whisked them out of the dreariness and drudgery of their lives at Mrs. Monday's and transported them to palaces in India, canals in Holland, pioneer stockades during the Indian wars, cattle ranches in the West, mountains in Switzerland, pagodas in China, igloos in Alaska, jungles in Africa, castles in England, slums in London, gardens in Japan, or most important of all, into happy homes where there were mothers and fathers and no Mrs. Mondays or Marybelles.

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Betty MacDonald

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In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.

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Jules Verne

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I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.

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Audrey Niffenegger

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I can change the story. I am the story.

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Jeanette Winterson

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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.

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Salman Rushdie

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Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.

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Frank Herbert

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Were the stories we told each other true? Who knows? At the best of times, a story is a slippery thing. Perhaps that was why it changed with each telling. Or is that the nature of all stories, the reason for their power?

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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The stories shatter. Or you wear them out or leave them behind. Over time the story of the memory loses its power. Over time you become someone else. Only when the honey turns to dust are you free.

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Rebecca Solnit

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I learn about how stories work for the same reason that soldiers learn how to strip a rifle. You should, too.

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Mike Carey

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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 interested enough in other people and the ordinary doings of people. That is why the real historians of Africa had always been the grandmothers, who remembered the lineage and the stories that went with it.

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Alexander McCall Smith

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The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

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Harold Bloom

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The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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"Roger left the cricket stumps and they went into the drawing room. Grandpapa, at the first suggestion of reading aloud, had disappeared, taking Patch with him. Grandmama had cleared away the tea. She found her spectacles and the book. It was Black Beauty. Grandmama kept no modern children's books, and this made common ground for the three of them. She read the terrible chapter where the stable lad lets Beauty get overheated and gives him a cold drink and does not put on his blanket. The story was suited to the day. Even Roger listened entranced. And Deborah, watching her grandmother's calm face and hearing her careful voice reading the sentences, thought how strange it was that Grandmama could turn herself into Beauty with such ease. She was a horse, suffering there with pneumonia in the stable, being saved by the wise coachman. After the reading, cricket was anticlimax, but Deborah must keep her bargain. She kept thinking of Black Beauty writing the book. It showed how good the story was, Grandmama said, because no child had ever yet questioned the practical side of it, or posed the picture of a horse with a pen in its hoof. "A modern horse would have a typewriter," thought Deborah, and she began to bowl to Roger, smiling to herself as she did so because of the twentieth-century Beauty clacking with both hoofs at a machine. ("The Pool")"

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Daphne du Maurier

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Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story.

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Zora Neale Hurston

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"It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, "Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife."

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Iris Murdoch

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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 for long days and nights when things were bad or good, or when things were too small to be described at all: when things just were. This is a life.

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Colm Tóibín

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One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the come to me.

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Madeleine L'Engle

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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 these specifics that tend to bore us whenever they lie outside of our own experience. But then, a layer beneath the particulars, the are hidden: the psychological, social and political themes that transcend the stories' temporal and geographical settings and are founded on unvarying fundamentals of human nature.

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Alain de Botton

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"Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: "Tell the history of our time through the people who make it."

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Walter Isaacson

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Stories were heirlooms in these parts.

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Robert Kurson

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[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 done either, I know, I know. But it's a change of muck. And if all muck is the same muck that doesn't matter, it's good to have a change of muck, to move from one heap to another, from time to time, fluttering you might say, like a butterfly, as if you were ephemeral.

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Samuel Beckett

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[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.

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Samuel Beckett

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The audience can endorse the triviality of modern art, but they can't like it.

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David Mamet

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So (and this would have happened earlier, but I am only remembering it now): I am visiting her one afternoon.

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Julian Barnes

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Philosophic thoughts allow people to use human reason and imagination to consider eternal matters and explore the ramifications of their own transience. American author Joan Didion postulated that we tell ourselves stories in order to live. Conceivably a personal crisis propels a person to delve into creating a guiding philosophy for living with reduced mental and emotional turmoil. Alternatively, perhaps we tell stories to examine, explain, and justify our failures.

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Kilroy J. Oldster

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Soll ich dir eine Geschichte erzahlen? Nein. Warum nicht? Der Junge sah ihn an und wandte den Blick ab. Warum nicht? Diese Geschichten sind nicht wahr. Das mussen sie auch nicht sein. Es sind Geschichten. Ja. Aber in den Geschichten helfen wir andauernd jemanden, dabei tun wir das in Wirklichkeit gar nicht. Warum erzahlst du mir nicht eine Geschichte? Ich will nicht. Okay. Ich habe keine Geschichten zu erzahlen. Du konntest mir eine Geschichte uber dich selbst erzahlen. Die Geschichten uber mich kennst du alle. Du warst dabei. Du hast Geschichten in deinem Inneren, von denen ich nichts weiss. Du meinst, so was wie Traume? Ja. Oder einfach Sachen, uber die du nachdenkst. Ja, aber Geschichten sollen doch schon sein. Nicht unbedingt. Du erzahlst immer schone Geschichten. Kennst du denn keine schonen? Meine haben mehr mit dem wirklichen Leben zu tun. Und meine nicht? Deine nicht. Nein. Der Mann betrachtete ihn. Und das wirkliche Leben ist ziemlich ubel? Was denkst du denn? Tja, ich denke, es gibt uns noch. Es sind viele schlimme Sachen passiert, aber es gibt uns immer noch. Ja. Du findest das nicht so toll. Es ist okay.

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Cormac McCarthy

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For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story.

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Markus Zusak

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When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.

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Walter Dean Myers

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An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns - but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver.

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Robert Bringhurst

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"Marriageability" was the original title of "The Harvest."

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Amy Hempel

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I would have written this next part into the story if anybody would have believed it. But who would have? I was there and I didn't believe it.

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Amy Hempel

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Story telling or teachable moments, provides us with a vast reference base of real life antidotes for possible future problems. They not only entertain and give us a resource of proven solutions, but they also help shape and mold our character. Therefore, when we don't take our time to communicate with our kids, then we rob them of critical life lessons that we and our forefathers learn the hard way - lessons that they would needlessly have to learn through trial and error themselves.

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Drexel Deal

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Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is really the only proper way to begin a story--the only way that really smacks of romance and fairyland--

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L.M. Montgomery

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"Fairy tales have been with us for a very long time.

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Kate Forsyth

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A related point: The job of the imagination, in making a story from experience, may be not to gussy the story up but to tone it down. The fact is, the world is unbelievably strange and human behavior is frequently so weird that no kind of narrative except farce or satire can handle it. The function of the storyteller's imagination sometimes is simply to make it more plausible.

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Ursula K. Le Guin