Which story do you want to hear my child?"he picked him up and made him sit on his lap.
"Tell us the story of that fairy who lived in a house of wafers,had a garden of chocolate trees and a pond full of goldfishes,"the child wrapped his arms around his shoulder.
Tags: writing writers children storytelling fairy
Things worth telling - take time
Nicholas DenmonTags: time storytelling
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. Gross, right? A bloody pulpy liquid mess. Look at it, try to make sense of it. Realize you can't. Because there is no sense. Ask your computer to print out a list of every lie you have ever told. Ask yourself how much of the universe you have ever really seen. Look in the mirror. Are you sure you're you? Are you sure you didn't slip out of yourself in the middle of the night, and someone else slipped into you, without you or you or any of you even noticing?
Charles YuTags: lies identity storytelling sense hearts mirrors the-universe bloody-pulpy-liquid-mess
it was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive.
Memory." p 380
Tags: storytelling
And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.
A novel for me is an immersive experience where I feel as if I have lived it and that I've tasted the food and experienced the sex and experienced the terror of battle. So I want all of the detail, all of the sensory things—whether it's a good experience, or a bad experience, I want to put the reader through it. To that mind, detail is necessary, showing not telling is necessary, and nothing is gratuitous.
Tags: inspirational reading purpose storytelling meaning authorship
When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins.
Sonia RumziTags: writing storytelling storytellers old-fashioned good-writng
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...
Gregory MaguireTags: self story storytelling
Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.
Gregory MaguireTags: children storytelling fairytales
[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--'
[Opal] 'Was?'
[J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.
Tags: humor storytelling
Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
Richard P. DenneyTags: books storytelling teen-fiction richard-denney
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