10th July 2016 | for Creatives | Neil Gaiman, magic/mystery of creating/art, writing, storytelling, value the art, Amanda Palmer |
"What felt magic can becomes either undone or overdone when you try to make a story out of it. Especially when you're a story-maker. Neil is. I am. We both are. I watch the story unfold. Sometimes I dictate the story to myself, then sometimes to the world. Sometimes I take dictation. Sometimes I get it wrong."
"We know in our deep and private places that we have a responsibility to take on things that draw our attention and to turn them into these mysterious objects—poems and stories—that illuminate, that offer an objection to the status quo, that warn and empower."
"We become the stories we listen to, read, and tell. That is the power of a story."
"On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent. The work is purifying and perfect even when it's not."
"My best stories are the ones that don't feel entirely mine. When I read them, I'm not sure how I wrote them."
"A story finds its own proper way of announcing itself."
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