funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
Sarah DessenTag: storytelling song-lyrics
Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.
Colum McCannTag: storytelling
Serena has spent her life fighting fiction the way good soldiers fight—intent on detecting its presence, harassing it, suppressing it—but I have to find a way to show her she’s mistaken her enemy, to explain to her that whoever suppresses fiction destroys life, and that everything disappears with it, all love, all desire. If the past is an invention, it’s not such a big deal. After all, the future’s an invention, and no one finds that hard to accept.
Enrique de HérizTag: future storytelling
If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply personal and familiar.
John SteinbeckTag: storytelling
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
William ShakespeareTag: storytelling
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
Graham GreeneTag: writing storytelling creative-process end beginning arbitrariness
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.
Piers AnthonyTag: storytelling publishers
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Lewis CarrollTag: adventure patience storytelling explanations
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.
Clare Boothe LuceTag: art creativity storytelling lying creatives
All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.
Umberto EcoTag: writing on-writing stories storytelling obsession
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