"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."

Narrative, History, Story, Relevance, Lesson

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"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."

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"Relaxation is, a state between waking and sleeping, where the body is completely still and the mind is allowed to flow freely from one thought to another, or alternately, a state in which the mind becomes inadvertently calm."

Gudjon Bergmann, Icelandic Author

Narrative, Relaxation, Mindfulness, Calm, Body

"When you're telling a story, you're trying to connect to people in a particular way The way in which you guys have inhabited this world, this universe, has made you part of it, part of the story. You are living in Firefly. When I see you guys, I don't think the show is off the air. I don't think there's a show; I think that's what the world is like. The story is our lives."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

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"The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to."

Robert Creeley, American Poet

Narrative, End, Necessity

"It's in The Lord of the Rings, I think, where one of the characters says that "way leads on to way"; that you could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go . . . well, anywhere at all. It's the same way with stories. One leads to the next, to the next, and to the next; maybe they go in the direction you wanted to go, but maybe they don't. Maybe in the end it's the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters."

Stephen King, American Author

Narrative, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Story

"Life is a book."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Narrative, Book, Life, Read, Write

"Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals."

Yann Martel, Canadian Author

Narrative, Story, Identity, Culture, Meaning

"Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough."

Crystal Woods, American Poet

Narrative, Identity, Belief, Time

"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."

Joyce Maynard, American Writer

Narrative, Right

"He starts telling them about our day, embellishing it so that it almost sounds fun. It's how all good travel stories are born. Nightmares spun into punch lines."

Gayle Forman, American Journalist

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"Fear is stronger than arms."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Narrative, Fear, Power, Conflict, Strength

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"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."

Writing

"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."

Love

"If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we'd have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they're erratic. People do crazy things that don't make sense."

Love

"Mrs Beaumont shrugged. 'Dougie travelled light in life,' she said. 'He knew it was people who were important."

Relationship

"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."

Writing

"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."

Creativity

"What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?"

Identity

"I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job."

Creativity

"Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes."

Writing

"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."

Writing