I'll tell you a secret.
Old storytellers never die.
They disappear into their own story.
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These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside. They were both an escape from reality and an alternative reality themselves. They were so old, and so strange, that they had found a kind of existence independent of the pages they occupied. The world of the old tales existed parallel to ours, but sometimes the walls separating the two became so thing and brittle that the two worlds started to blend into each other. That was when the trouble started. That was when the bad things came. That was when the Crooked Man began to appear to David.
John ConnollySoon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra.
Neil GaimanOnce upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.
John ConnollyTags: stories fantasy fairy-tales
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
Alice HoffmanTags: stories fairy-tales
There are people.
There are stories.
The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth.
Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
Neil GaimanI think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.
Scarlett ThomasNot all events are stories.
Scarlett ThomasPeople make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
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