Telling a story is like sowing a seed–you always hope to see it become a beautiful tree, with firm roots and branches that soar up in the sky. But it is a peculiar sowing, for you will never know whether your seed sprouts or dies.
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 Laila Lalami
The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.
His anger took many shapes: sometimes soft and familiar, like a round stone he had caressed for so long that is was perfectly smooth and polished; sometimes it was thin and sharp like a blade that could slice through anything; sometimes it had the form...
Telling a story is like sowing a seed–you always hope to see it become a beautiful tree, with firm roots and branches that soar up in the sky. But it is a peculiar sowing, for you will never know whether your seed sprouts or dies.
Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.
