Quotes About Storytelling

I can show you a version of yourself, Taryn. One you've never imagined. It's terrible to be a girl trapped in a story. But you can be more than that. You can be the teller. You can shape the story. You can make all of Faerie love you.

En los cuentos no pasan cosas buenas —replica Taryn—. Y si pasan, es porque después va a ocurrir algo malo. De lo contrario, el cuento sería un rollo y nadie querría leerlo.

He made me into a story, and now I am going to make a story out of someone else

I want to tell you so many lies/

If I can't find a good enough story I make one.

ByÅ' raz sobie chÅ'opiec o podÅ'ym sercu - zacz??a. - Nie to nie tak byÅ'o - przerwaÅ' jej Cardan. - Inaczej zaczynaÅ'a siÄ™ ta ba??. Przecie? miaÅ' kÄ…Å›liwy jÄ™zyk. - ChÅ'opcy siÄ™ zmieniajÄ…. - powiedziaÅ'a. - BaÅ›nie te?. " ~Holly Black, ''Dlaczego król elfów nie znosiÅ' baÅ›ni

By? raz sobie ch?opiec o pod?ym sercu - zacz??a. - Nie to nie tak by?o - przerwa? jej Cardan. - Inaczej zaczyna?a si? ta ba??. Przecie? mia? k??liwy j?zyk. - Ch?opcy si? zmieniaj?. - powiedzia?a. - Ba?nie te?.

If I can't find a good enough story, I make one.

He made me into a story, and I am going to make a story out of someone else.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!

Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief. "Would you like a cup of tea?" John-Paul stood

her grandfather used to say, "Never spoil a good story with the facts.

It was almost as though something interesting and unusual had happened to him and he'd forgotten to tell Cat about it until now.

Never spoil a good story with the facts.

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

I wanted her and no one else to tell me the story of how she died.

But don't you think there are larger issues the author is trying to explore?' 'Yes, but they shouldn't be given primacy over or even separated from the experience of the story itself.

In revision, as a rough rule, if the beginning can be cut, cut it. And if any passage sticks out in some way, leaves the main trajectory, could possibly come out — take it out and see what the story looks like that way. Often a cut that seemed sure to leave a terrible hole joins up without a seam. It's as if the story, the work itself, has a shape it's trying to achieve, and will take that shape if you'll only clear away the verbiage.

Walking by Stolen Creek the meaning of its name forgotten, the word remembered. Whatever happened here is recalled in another time and it's remembered inside the stolen self that my blood river passes through in thin and beautiful veins, not gold but only a mere human heartbeat, a circle of people standing, talking, making their plans as water passes by. Something, someone is still alive, telling. They think these are only stories not what holds the world together in its balance.

Stay alive so you can tell.

Nothing can quite take the place of reading a good book out loud together. It can be calming, comforting, and inspiring. It is a powerful opportunity to bond and share in the delight of a good story.

I loved before I met him, a large, hulking, healthy Adam ... with a voice like the thunder of God — a singer, story-teller, lion and world-wanderer, a vagabond who will never stop. She