There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and... →
Elaine Pagels
I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and I realized that many parts... →
I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.
Brad Paisley
I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have... →
I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing... →
Chuck Palahniuk
You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.
I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and... →
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar... →