#telling

I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. ↗

— Leslie Marmon Silko

#death

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought." To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#death #feel #feeling #finish #listen

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves. ↗

— Derek Landy

#lying-to-ourselves #self-deception #telling-lies #death

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#imagination #stories #storytelling #imagination

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#am #compliments #cowards #deserve #english

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#fairy #i #interpreter #like #perform

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#again #different #directed #everybody #george

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#effectively #else #important #into #narrative

I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community. ↗

— Teri Garr

#am #answer #community #employers #fellow

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.' ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#anymore #because #classes #feel #glad