Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
storytelling song-lyrics
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
storytelling on-fiction
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
storytelling
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
To hell with facts! We need stories!
Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming.
storytelling warnings
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.
stories storytelling
I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
I will tell you something about stories... They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
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.
storytelling publishers
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.
storytelling patterns
It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.
[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.
funny humor storytelling
You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.
storytelling storytellers
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.
Stories.. Are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words. Catherynne Valente
Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy stories. This is because no event comes to us without being already shot through with explanation. In other words, by now almost nothing that happens benefits storytelling; almost everything benefits information. Actually, it is half the art of storytelling to keep a story free from explanation as one reproduces it.... The most extraordinary things, marvelous things, are related with the greatest accuracy, but the psychological connection of the event is not forced on the reader. It is left up to him to interpret things the way he understands them, and thus the narrative achieves an amplitude that information lacks.
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
stories storytelling labels
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.
Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.
All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them.
She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (..), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.
storytelling entertainment
If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?
storytelling storyteller
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