{"quotes":[{"text":"The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution.","author":"Steve House","tags":["complexity","problem-solving","storytelling"],"id":292,"author_id":"Steve+House"},{"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":"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":"I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,Thy knotted and combined locks to part,And each particular hair to stand on endLike quills upon the fretful porpentine.But this eternal blazon must not beTo ears of flesh and blood.List, list, O list!","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["fear","hamlet","hamlet-s-father","horror","storytelling","threats"],"id":1137,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.","author":"J. J. Abrams","tags":["doing","storytelling","leap "],"id":1482,"author_id":"J.+J.+Abrams"},{"text":"Every day is a journey.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["ad-posey","every-day","inspirational","journey","storytellers","storytelling","write","writers","writing","writing"],"id":1661,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"},{"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":"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"},{"text":"Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood, this whole notion that you can't tell stories about certain characters because someone else owns them is a very modern one - and to my mind, a very strange one.","author":"Michael Montoure","tags":["copyright","fan-fiction","intellectual-property","storytelling"],"id":3485,"author_id":"Michael+Montoure"},{"text":"I have noticed that when people tell their own stories, often it has less to do with wanting to communicate an idea to another than with clarifying an emotion to themselves. Or when the subject of the story is beloved and missing, as a way to make them here and alive.","author":"Lydia Minatoya","tags":["reading","storytelling"],"id":3592,"author_id":"Lydia+Minatoya"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1038,"pages":104,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}