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"The making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer..."
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"What so tedious as a twice-told tale?"
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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!"
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"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."
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"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."
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"The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
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"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."
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"This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk."
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"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."
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"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist."
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"If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be."
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"True love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ..."
Love
"When someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real..."
Emotion
"Before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ..."
Nostalgia
"No good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one..."
Creativity
"Come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words..."
Poetry
"You betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean..."
Forgiveness
"I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely..."
Emotion
"You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls...."
Conflict
"If you don't regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor ..."
Integrity
"Our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives..."
Psychology
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