#telling

Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps no coincidence that nature in the Cinderella stories facilitates transformation, for nature itself is a changeable thing, from season to season, from a sunny day to rain, from an egg to a flying bird in a matter of weeks. (Source: "The Nature of Cinderella".) ↗

— Marie Rutkoski

#fairy-tales #stories #telling-tales #writing #nature

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#self-image #sense-of-self #stories #storytelling #story

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up. ↗

— Jo Brand

#hard #hard work #much #shut #shut up

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention. ↗

— Pat Brown

#community #killer #lot #out #serial

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

#film #i #interested #making #me

We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance. ↗

— Ken Curtis

#cancellation #did #insurance #jumping #kill

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. ↗

— Elmer Davis

#half #literal #man #middle-aged #middle-aged man

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#storytelling #literature

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.' ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#am #being #control #day #full

Truth disappears with the telling of it. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#telling #truth