“landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.” StillsStoriesAsksLandscapeBelovedDescriptionInvitesStill LifeNarration Book:Spillville: A Collaboration Source: Spillville: A Collaboration
“Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of personal experience, of consciousness itself. That includes a story, but also the whole expanding universe of sensation and thought ... Memoirists wish to tell their mind. Not their story.” WantMindWholeStoriesUniverseWishConsciousnessFictionSensationsExpandingPersonal ExperiencesFiction WritersExpanding Universe Author:Patricia Hampl
“Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health, relies heavily on memory and on the ability to retrieve and organize images and events from the personal pastIf we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us—to write the first draft and then return for the second draft—we are doing the work of memory.” WritingFirstsStoriesPastMovingMemoriesAbilityEventsReturnHealthyCapacityMethodMental HealthMoving ForwardDevelopingRelyOrganizePromotingPsychotherapyHealthy Relationship Author:Patricia Hampl
“I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell.” IfsStories Author:Patricia Hampl
“We do not, after all, simply have experience; we are entrusted with it. We must do something--make something--with it. A story, we sense is the only possible habitation for the burden of our witnessing.” StoriesBurden Author:Patricia Hampl
