11th July 2016 | for Creatives | reading, Neil Gaiman, writer-reader relationship, storytelling, value the art |
"That's the purpose of stories, that's what they're for: They make life worth living and, sometimes, they keep us alive."
"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."
"The reason we tell stories, to judge from what I have seen among traditional people, is to keep each other from being afraid. We tell stories and write poems, historically, to keep awe and aspiration and comprehension and the other components of hopeful lives bright in each other's hearts. Storytelling is how we're moved to take care of each other when we recognize how extremely thin the veneer of civilization we cherish is, and how very hard it is to keep that veneer from shredding in the wind."
"We become the stories we listen to, read, and tell. That is the power of a story."
"The most important thing that I think fiction does [is that] it lets us look out through other eyes... but it also gives us empathy. The act of looking out through other eyes tells us something huge and important, which is that other people exist. ... One of the things that fiction can give us is just the realization that behind every pair of eyes, there's somebody like us."
"Stories should change you - GOOD stories should change you."
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