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Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.


David Brin


#anyone #author #buy #fictive #neither

Shall we all open our heart to be a forever home for lost pets.


Martha Steward


#animal-stories #pet-adoption #home

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.


Terry Pratchett


#humor #imagination #literature #stories #humor

Literature is the real life of imaginary people.


Stefanos Livos


#fiction #imagination #literature #stories #imagination

...But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.


Orson Scott Card


#lies #stories #the-truth #imagination

There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.


Alan Moore


#death

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...


Criss Jami


#building-up #compression #creativity #deaf #development

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.


Janet Frame


#border #cathedrals #expedition #factories #going

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.


Charles de Lint


#stories #inspirational

So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream.


N.K. Jemisin


#inspirational #myths #stories #writing #inspirational






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