#telling

MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps All REALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time ↗

#on-writing #storytelling #wired-for-story #writing #writing-myths

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#dishonesty #evil #gender #inequality #men

Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#storytelling #art

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. ↗

— Annette Simmons

#illusions #interdependence #ritual #stories #storytelling

There's always been a man telling me what to do. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#been #man #me #telling

Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#i #instead #me #need #needed

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay. ↗

— Webb Simpson

#everything #felt #going #happened #i

He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating ↗