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"When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity."
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"What so tedious as a twice-told tale?"
"Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details of a developing book. And while you may successfully engage in a meaningful conversation with her, an additional part of her mind is frantically sifting through descriptive lines to be used if ever she were to write this exchange down. The trouble with writers is that they are ALWAYS writing!"
"If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me."
"Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie."
"To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else."
"The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
"That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies."
"This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk."
"A story has value whether it's true or not."
"A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving."
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"All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece."
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