You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.
Sandra DallasTags: storytelling storytellers
I can see how I could write a bold account of myself as a passionate man who rose from humble beginnings to cut a wide swath in the world, whose crimes along the way might be written off to extravagance and love and art, and could even almost believe some of it myself on certain days after the sun went down if I’d had a snort or two and was in Los Angeles and it was February and I was twenty-four, but I find a truer account in the Herald-Star, where it says: “Mr. Gary Keillor visited at the home of Al and Florence Crandall on Monday and after lunch returned to St. Paul, where he is currently employed in the radio show business… Lunch was fried chicken with gravy and creamed peas”.
Garrison KeillorTags: humor truth storytelling
A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing what you believe. They end up turning into keepsakes and mementos—like amber in which a memory gets trapped.
Michael ChabonTags: storytelling memory
How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"
If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"
Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "Touché. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story...
Tags: storytelling reading-for-pleasure
In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success
Jules Barbey d'AurevillyTags: success silence cynicism storytelling paris flattering
They weren't true stories; they were better than that.
Alice HoffmanTags: stories on-fiction fiction storytelling fairy-tale
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
Orson Scott CardTags: society on-fiction fiction storytelling
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.
Ben OkriTags: stories civilization storytelling mythology
Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.
Seth Grahame-SmithTags: storytelling
A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.
Donald MillerTags: storytelling
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