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“The Rough Beast snorted. You dont get it at all, buddy. Its not about wrestling. Its about stories. Were storytellers.Caperton studied him. Somebody at my job just said that.Its true! You have to b...”
“Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.”
“One of the things that I have learned, one of the attainments of the long travails and tribulations, has been, I think, coming to a simpler sense of myself that I think correlates to a simpler sens...”
“Too much truth destroys.”
“Even though this princess loved the oak and the castle and her mother, the queen, she tired of the beautiful swamp, of her surroundings. You see, as she grew she came to realize that if she looked ...”
“The folly and the glory of the world... the wild, the wise and the wicked... the hero, the madman, the wanderer and the fool... the earth, the seas, the wild heavens... are all part of an endless, ...”
“Wish not for treasure you can hold, No gleaming jewels, bright and cold, For finer still than pearl or gold, The treasure of a tale well told...”
“A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.”
“A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.”
“Tell me half a cups worth of story and well call it a night.”
“It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.”
“Listening to Ella furiously and endlessly unfurl the yarns of the Mingus tales, I understood that the need to tell stories is deeply embedded in our minds, and inseparably entangled with the mechan...”
“Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. Its a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, its a way of keeping...”
“Though a story may begin as a lie, perhaps it can be made true. Perhapsd their ultimate power is found in how they inspire us to action.”
“Mama always did tell a good story, built a solid background, then deftly lead her engrossed listener through a series of doorways, enticing them in before delivering the coup de grce.”
“Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' 'Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit...”
“The heart is a repository of emotions--real, imagined, and invented, owned and borrowed, past, present, future--and there in your chest, operating at an average of 80 beats per minute at rest, is a...”
“Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don't describe it--make it happen on the page, if you were writing fiction, or ma...”
“Each word was shaped with certainty, and I felt, more strongly than ever before in my life, that I had at last found my true path. I knew the story would change as I told it. No one can tell as tor...”
“So theres a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isnt about how much sense you make, it is about how compelling you are. (interview)”
