{"quotes":[{"text":"Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["aspiring-writers","books","creative-people","creative-process","creative-writing","creativity","fiction","fundamentals-of-creative-writing","fundamentals-of-writing","literature","on-writing","power-of-words","on-writing","reading","short-story","stories","story-writing","storytelling","tips-on-writing","write","writers","writing","writing-advice","writing-craft","writing-fiction","writing-from-the-heart","writing-ideas","writing-style"],"id":549,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another.","author":"Thomas C. Foster","tags":["history","stories"],"id":555,"author_id":"Thomas+C.+Foster"},{"text":"I contend that good children's stories are always about the Getting of Wisdom. That's another way of saying, 'Let your characters grow. Up.' And good stories for adults are about the Holding of Wisdom. Another way of saying, 'Recognize you are grown up.","author":"Jane Yolen","tags":["stories","writing"],"id":644,"author_id":"Jane+Yolen"},{"text":"But Andrew was right about one thing. Human beings need to tell stories. Historically, it's the quickest way we have for transmitting useful information to other members of our species. Stories are not simply nice things to have; they are essential survival tools. And yes, the stories we tell ourselves are just as important as the stories we tell other people.","author":"Hugh MacLeod","tags":["stories","storytelling"],"id":886,"author_id":"Hugh+MacLeod"},{"text":"For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these are the selfsame tale and contain as well all within them. So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.","author":"Cormac McCarthy","tags":["lessons","life","stories","world"],"id":991,"author_id":"Cormac+McCarthy"},{"text":"I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.","author":"Charles de Lint","tags":["inspirational","stories"],"id":1467,"author_id":"Charles+de+Lint"},{"text":"Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.","author":"John Connolly","tags":["reader","reading","stories"],"id":2102,"author_id":"John+Connolly"},{"text":"You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["ad-posey","be","find","greatest","happiness","inspirational","letting","stories","story","storytellers","storytelling","write","writers","writing","writing","you","yourself"],"id":2389,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"},{"text":"There's always more to the story, Catriona,' She replied. 'That's the wonderful thing about stories.","author":"Heather Vogel Frederick","tags":["stories"],"id":2703,"author_id":"Heather+Vogel+Frederick"},{"text":"These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.","author":"Edwidge Danticat","tags":["oral-tradition","stories","storytelling"],"id":3047,"author_id":"Edwidge+Danticat"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1369,"pages":137,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}