#telling

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

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#evil #fiction #grace #on-fiction #storytelling

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling. ↗

— Eric Bana

#comes #creative #creative process #i #me

One of the worst days of my life was telling Dick Ebersol I was going to TNT. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#going #i #life #my life #telling

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#because #dying #end #epic #out

I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me. ↗

— Joe Biden

#angry #around #exaggerate #gone #i

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#advice #bit #bite #chickens #cross

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true. ↗

— Delta Burke

#aging #beautiful #beauty #because #blanche

For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on. ↗

— Jane Campion

#about #being #director #like #look

George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do. ↗

— Drew Carey

#before #carlin #comic #george #george carlin