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"Experience is the catalyst for all great stories."
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"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!"
"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."
"This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk."
"As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper."
"What you need to remember is that there's a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not."
"Experience is the catalyst for all great stories."
"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid, a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."
"What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?""Stories. And they give me hope."
"We owe it to each other to tell stories."
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"Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become."
"Prove that you love me through a lingering gaze and never losing that twinkle of adoration in your eyes."
"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
"It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation."
"A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write."
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