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Storytelling Quote by Jo Walton

“Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the world and our place in it.” quote by Jo Walton — Download Open image

““Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the world and our place in it.””

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I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

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Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's…

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“I figured it out this afternoon, when they let me take a walk around the grounds, that these cows are stupid. Bovine. I knew…

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“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes…

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You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

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Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My…

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You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real…

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“The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any…

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It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

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“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won’t know anything whatsoever about…

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“Anyway, while most people can't see fairies anyway because they don't believe in them, seeing them isn't a bad thing. Some of the most…

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“Aujourd’hui, rien. That’s what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.”

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“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You…

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“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?”

Christopher Bram

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If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

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I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

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We can never tell what is in store for us.

Harry S. Truman

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Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them…

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Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must…

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“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted…

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Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

Chuck Palahniuk

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I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in…

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“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.”

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