We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn’t come with plots; it’s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can’t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense.
John DufresneTags: books fiction story storytelling novel
Though a story may begin as a lie, perhaps it can be made true. Perhaps their ultimate power is found in how they inspire us to action.
Matthew J. KirbyTags: storytelling
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.
Dan HarmonTags: natural inspiration humanity human storytelling community unnatural naturally unnaturally
In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.
Jules VerneTags: literature storytelling
If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.
Deborah J. LevineTags: inspirational storytelling culture problem-solving decision-making cross-cultural cross-cultural-understanding conflict-management-training
And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there's no overlap.
Jandy NelsonTags: storytelling story-writing narrative-therapy
Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.
Stephenie MeyerTags: story storytelling talents
The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.
Haruki MurakamiTags: stories storytelling magic
It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli.
Melville Davisson PostTags: stories storytelling
Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader.
Geoff RymanTags: honesty empowerment originality freedom stories literature storytelling responsibility healing unexpected freshness satre
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