Quotes About Storytelling

Todo hombre memorable corre el albur de ser amonedado en anécdotas ['Every memorable man runs the risk of being minted in anecdotes']

La muchacha habló como si estuviera sola y de algún modo yo sentí que no podía pensar en otra cosa y que esa cosa era lo único que le había pasado en la vida. (...) Los años pasan y son tantas las veces que he contado la historia que ya no sé si la recuerdo de veras o si sólo recuerdo las palabras con que la cuento. Tal vez lo mismo le paso a la Cautiva con su malón, Ahora lo mismo da que fuera yo o que fuera otro el que vio matar a Moreira.

Son el irresponsable juego de un tímido que se animó a escribir cuentos y que se distrajo en falsear y tergiversar (sin justificación estética alguna vez) ajenas historias.

Reality may be too complex for oral transmission; legend recreates it in a manner which is only accidentally false and which allows it to go about the world, from mouth to mouth.

C'est une longue histoire, je crois. (...) Je désirais la lui raconter sans détours, mais je ne la voyais pas ainsi. Les histoires sont toujours pleines de détours.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

the single hero story that seemed to be repeating itself everywhere — in the oldest Sumerian epics, in folktales from the Pacific Islands and the Siberian forests and the African savannah, in the lives of great religious heroes like Gautama ?akyam?ni and Jesus, in the case notes of psychiatric patients

a curious characteristic of our unformed species that we live and model our lives through acts of make-believe.

Myth is much more important and true than history.

Pluralism makes a unifying myth impossible. But if we cannot reinstate such a mythology we can, at least, return to the source from which mythology springs - the creative imagination.

I do remember,' explained Christopher Robin, 'only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and not just a remembering.

Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories, and feel that there are not enough of them. So, after all that you have done for me, the least that I can do for you is to write you one.

Quello che mi interessa sapere è se scrive delle cose vere o delle cose inventate. Le rispondo che cerco di scrivere delle storie vere, ma, a un certo punto, la storia diventa insopportabile proprio per la sua verità e allora sono costretto a cambiarla. Le dico che cerco di raccontare la mia storia, ma che non ci riesco, non ne ho il coraggio, mi fa troppo male. Allora abbellisco tutto e descrivo le cose non come sono accadute, ma come avrei voluto che accadessero.

Don't blurt out your theme. Let it emerge from the story.

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

The story is the important thing.

This is where the inspiration for books comes from. Images and ideas and sounds from these worlds seep through the water and into our dimension. And those things inspire people like you. Storytellers.

Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!

Koshy Saar's response is indignant. "It's fiction! Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!

telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology.

But such memories are woven from gossamer threads; time eats holes in the fabric, and these she must darn with myth and fable.

such memories are woven from gossamer threads; time eats holes in the fabric, and these she must darn with myth and fable. The