#telling

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#truth-telling #writing #logic

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#civil-disobedience #democracy #dissent #law #protest

You can fix anything but a blank page. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#storytelling #writing #write

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#actions #acts #creation #dream #dreams

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. ↗

— Joan Didion

#storytelling #storytelling

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#storytelling #storytelling

If you can't beat them. Join them ↗

— Jim Henson

#storytelling

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't. ↗

— Sandra Dallas

#storytelling #storytelling

Stories...are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words. ↗

— Catherynne Valente

#storytelling