#tories

All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#stories #storytelling #storytelling

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories. ↗

— John Berger

#stories #storytelling #storytelling

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#books #does #example #for example #good

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#complex #events #exaggerated #find #funny

But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors. ↗

— Jim McKay

#characters #collected #created #did #fictitious

Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had always thought that a very romantic idea, but she’d dismissed it as a pure invention of the world of books. All those wilting heroes and heroines who suddenly gave up the ghost just because of unrequited love or longing for something they’d lost! Elinor had always enjoyed their sufferings—as a reader will. After all, that was what you wanted from books: great emotions you’d never felt yourself, pain you could leave behind by closing the book if it got too bad. Death and destruction felt deliciously real conjured up with the right words, and you could leave them behind between the pages as you pleased, at no cost or risk to yourself. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#reading #stories #death

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#collected #i #into #love #series

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#about #childhood #decisions #head #i

Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory. -- Bea ↗

— Jennifer Brown

#victories #winning #life

We tell our stories, especially as young people, in part because we want them to be true. We want life to be full of adventure and creativity and daring that might, just might, be real. ↗

— Dana Frank

#life