Storytelling proverbs
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- William Goldman98◆ This is our story to tell. You'd think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven't. I've never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.
- Jandy Nelson98◆ Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.
- Jennifer Weiner98◆ I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.
- Piers Anthony98◆ A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
- Norton Juster98◆ A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
- Daniel Wallace98◆ I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
- Leslie Marmon Silko98◆ 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.
- Eudora Welty98◆ Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.
- Michael Shermer98◆ 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...
- Joseph Conrad98◆ Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
- Clover Donovan98◆ A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.
- John Steinbeck98◆ A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
- Marcus Sedgwick98◆ The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
- Henry Green98◆ People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.
- Neil Gaiman98
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