All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great...
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Vera Nazarian
Stories are masks of God.That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning,...
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Melanie Tem
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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Lisa See
Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.
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A.D. Posey
Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain.
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Peter Brooks
More Quotes By Tom Spanbauer
Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.
That's when you stop being one way and start being another, Ruby said. Not something many people can do, or want to do. In fact, Ruby said, The only people who cross over, cross over because they're on some kind of Mission Impossible.I could no...
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.
I tell you I'm tired of hearing it. There ain't nothing that happens to a person that ain't that person. The world out there only does what you tell it to do. The world is happening to you the way it is happening because you're...
