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#telling

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Stories. Character. Dialouge. Entire worlds created on the page. Worlds that could sweep you away or frighten you, make you laugh or cry. Worlds that allowed you to escape to another country or time. Worlds built piece by piece of ink and punctuation.


Jamie Michaels


#on-writing #storytelling #inspirational

Though a story may begin as a lie, perhaps it can be made true. Perhapsd their ultimate power is found in how they inspire us to action.


Matthew J. Kirby


#inspirational

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.


Philip Pullman


#on-writing #storytelling #inspirational

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.


Siri Hustvedt


#present #story #storytelling #change

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.


St. Catherine of Siena


#fear #freedom-of-speech #truth #truth-telling #freedom

What I am telling you is that Matta had a way of making you feel comfortable and that's probably why he had nine wives because he made them feel comfortable and then uncomfortable later.


Robert Barnes


#because #comfortable #feel #had #i

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.


Simon Le Bon


#age #especially #i #i think #joke

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.


Alfred Brendel


#composed #composer #i #like #makes

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.


Robert McAfee Brown


#into #most #most powerful #powerful #powerful way

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.


Natalie Coughlin


#college #did #forgo #go #had






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