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.
Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.
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Jennifer Weiner
I write for the kid in me.. .. Often when I’m working on a story, I’ll find myself laughing at something my characters have done, or even being surprised at where they’ve taken the story. It’s as if they have a life all their own....
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Elvira Woodruff
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.
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John Steinbeck
Things worth telling - take time
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Nicholas Denmon
Words, you see, " he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient. Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.
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Vaddey Ratner
More Quotes By Leslie Marmon Silko
The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.
He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up...knees from buckling...hands from letting go of the...
Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions.. on whether you knew the story of...
Anybody can act violently--there is nothing to it, but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.
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.
