The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.
Terry PratchettTags: humanity stories anthropology chimpanzees
A novel, in which all is created by the author's whim, must strike a more profound level of truth, or it is worthless."
"And yet, I have heard you say that any novel that relieves your ennui for an hour has proved its usefulness."
"You have a good memory. It must have been ten thousands of years ago that I uttered those words."
"And if it was?"
"In another ten thousand, perhaps I will agree with them again."
"In my opinion, the proper way to judge a novel is this: Does it give one an accurate reflection of the moods and characteristics of a particular group of people in a particular place at a particular time? If so, it has value. Otherwise, it has none."
"You do not find this rather narrow?"
"Madam—"
"Well?"
"I was quoting you.
Tags: literary-criticism stories novels
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
China MiévilleWe tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.
Joan DidionThese were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.
Edwidge DanticatTags: stories storytelling oral-tradition
Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.
Sei ShōnagonTags: reading books stories enjoyment
...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.
From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Tags: inspirational stories
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
Salman RushdieThey are not my stories...they are merely mine to tell
Jeremy AldanaTags: inspirational stories
But Alfanhui didn't want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn't tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their strength.
Rafael Sánchez FerlosioTags: stories
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