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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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"Storytelling entails weaving a narrative out of the disturbing, strange, inspirational, and unremarkable detritus of life. By picking among the litter of our personal experiences to select evocative anecdotes to weave into a narrative format, we reveal which of life's legendary offerings prove the most sublime to us. Acts of omission are momentous. Our narration of personal sketches divulge what factoids inspire us or do not stir us into action, or contain obdurate truths that prove virtually impossible to crack."
"Every human being carries with them the stories of their ancestors, the story of their generation, and the rudiments of pliable clay to build future storylines that will shape their community of kindred souls. Storytelling unites us as a species and supplies texture to our lives. By listening to other people's stories and by sharing our personal story, we deftly weave the threads that compose the sacred hoop of the tribe."
"So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?"
"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."
"An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings."
"What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?""Stories. And they give me hope."
"The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction."
"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."
"If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule-a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last."
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"Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field..."
"Perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words..."
"Once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you..."
"You found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell..."
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