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Magician is the best storyteller in the world.

—Amit Kalantri

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ConjurarConjuringMagic
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I wanted not the momentary suspense but the whole world to which it belonged.

—C.S. Lewis

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DetailStorytellingWriting
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The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

—Ashly Lorenzana

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Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we’d naturally do.

—Dan Harmon

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Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.

—Isabel Greenberg

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StarsStoriesStorytelling
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medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.

—James Wood

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The boy thought, How powerful a story is, and how by a kind of magic it compels the imagination; there was nothing in the world, it seemed to him, so mysteriously strong; and he began...

—Glenway Wescott

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Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it.”[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January...

—John Green

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Writing nonfiction means I tell people’s stories for them, not because they’re special but because we all are.

—Jo Deurbrouck

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Storytelling is an essential part of our cultural and human identity…when we become afraid of stories outside the mainstream, I believe we have lost a valuable part of our cultural inheritance and growth.

—Louise Sommer

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Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.

—Michael Shermer

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The most powerful words in English are, “Tell me a story.

—Pat Conroy

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Don’t resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.

—Patricia Hamill

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There are books full of great writing that don’t have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story… don’t be like the book-snobs who won’t do that. Read sometimes for the words–the language. Don’t be...

—Stephen King

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The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories.

—Vishwas Mudagal

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The Dreamer awakesThe shadow goes byThe tale I have told you,That tale is a lie.But listen to me,Bright maiden, proud youthThe tale is a lie;What it tells is the truth.

—Traditional folktale

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Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters.

—Aurin Squire

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Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.

—Amit Kalantri

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This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.

—Adele Griffin

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Roger left the cricket stumps and they went into the drawing room. Grandpapa, at the first suggestion of reading aloud, had disappeared, taking Patch with him. Grandmama had cleared away the tea. She found her...

—Daphne du Maurier

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Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation is informed by time. And so I tell my story to you, as...

—Garth Stein

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Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it’s built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer...

—Harlan Ellison

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I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

—Donald Miller

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StoryStorytelling
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U nekom trenutku sve priče postaju iste, kaže pripovedač, i sve vode do istog cilja. Veština je u tome, kaže pripovedač, da se onaj koj sluša ili čita priču navede na pomisao da je priča...

—David Albahari

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A story is not a thing. A story is an act. It only exists in the brief moment of its telling. The question you must ask is what a story has the power to do....

—Matthew J.

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No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See me! Look at me! Look at who I am! Look at who I want you...

—Leslie Pietrzyk

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StorytellingTruth
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Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages.

—Jennifer Murgia

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Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something deep within us, the capacity to conceptualize, objectify and find patterns, thereby to...

—Peter Straub

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This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation....

—Walter Benjamin

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When telling the story of your life, it is of great value to recognize and focus on the details that reveal or inspire an empowered unfolding of your being. Much like rewriting your own DNA,...

—Scott Edmund

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Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn’t see us.

—Sarah Black

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AlienationInvisibilityLoneliness
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Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter...

—Arthur C. Clarke

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ArtStorytelling
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A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation… Stories can conquer...

—Ben Okri

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The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one’s importance, and encourages inaction.

—Catherine Robinson-Walker

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Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.

—Charlotte Beers

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[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing… it eventempts him to blurt...

—Homer

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If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.

—Deborah J.

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It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.

—Haruki Murakami

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FictionStorytelling
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The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means to be human. We use stories to order and make sense of our...

—John Capecci

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I do believe that some humans have more amazing lives than others–above all, those who don’t sit down in a chair like mere spectators letting their lives happen in front of them, but they take...

—Merce Cardus

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To hell with facts! We need stories!

—Ken Kesey

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Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in allplaces, in all times.

—Rives Collins

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As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business. I am a storyteller. Daydreaming is the best part of my job.

—Richelle E.

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To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the...

—Umberto Eco

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Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I’m hoping...

—Susan Fletcher

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and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event

—Tanith Lee

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To be truly Christian we must both assent to the historical fact and also to receive the myth (the fact that what has become) with the same imaginative embrace which we accorded to all myths....

—C.S. Lewis

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Storytellers don’t show, they tell. I’m sticking with that.

—Ashly Lorenzana

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Confession time: I doubt I would ever have picked up one of Marjorie’s books, had I not met her in person. The reason is they’re categorized as Romances, which is where they are shelved in...

—Bill Willingham

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The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop’s Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the way some discern clue after perplexing clue in their Beatle albums as evidence...

—Jared C.

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