Quotes About Storytelling

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

The way to avoid the ills of the narrative fallacy is to favor experimentation over storytelling, experience over history, and clinical knowledge over theories. Certainly

It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.

Author discussed what he calls the narrative fallacy. This refers to our limited ability to look at a sequence of facts without weaving an explanation into them.

Cherry-picking has optionality: the one telling the story (and publishing it) has the advantage of being able to show the confirmatory examples and completely ignore the rest—and the more volatility and dispersion, the rosier the best story will be (and the darker the worst story). Someone

The way to avoid the ills of the narrative fallacy is to favor experimentation over storytelling, experience over history, and clinical knowledge over theories.

You can replace lies with truth; but myth is only displaced with a narrative.

Are we so plagued with the narrative fallacy?

La narratividad nace de una necesidad biológica innata conforme a la cual tendemos a reducir la dimensionalidad;

our preference for the anecdotal over the empirical.

Cherry-picking has optionality: the one telling the story (and publishing it) has the advantage of being able to show the confirmatory examples and completely ignore the rest

Optionality is Promethean, narratives are Epimethean—

Birds fly and those who lecture them are the ones who write their story. So it is easy to see that history is truly written by losers with time on their hands and a protected academic position.

What is your suggestion for someone who wants to start writing? Be a reader. It's the only real way to learn how to tell a story.

To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

Hey," he said, "how about you be Cleopatra, and I'll be Prometheus?

Except, of course, when he made shit up.

he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages, and—as Citra had already discovered—the emotional catharsis of slamming a book shut.

Fiction is an improvement on life

I write fiction What's fiction? Fiction is an improvement on life.

What's fiction?" "Fiction is an improvement on life.

I write fiction. What's fiction ?? Fiction is an improvement on life.

The canker of self-consciousness has been long in me, so like a lot of writers I not only do a thing, I see myself doing it too—it's almost like not being alone. That morning our hero skipped in his skivvies down to the shore of the sea . . . it was dark . . . the fog . . . Storytelling!