“The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan of his work, and of the thought he intends to elaborate. As he proceeds, penetrating his material, laboring to express himself fitly, he lays a firmer grasp on his thought; he finds himself. So the human race is writing its story, finding itself, discovering its own underlying purpose, revising, recasting a tale pathetic often, yet none the less sublime.” WritingHumansMayStoriesPurposeRacePlansMaterialsFindingsLaysNotionTalesHuman RaceDiscoveringVagueSublimePatheticRevising Book:The Standard Source: The Standard
“Home is a blueprint of memory...Finding home is crucial to the act of writing. Begin here. With what you know. With the tales you've told dozens of times...with the map you've already made in your heart. That's where the real home is: inside. If we carry that home with us all the time, we'll be able to take more risks. We can leave on wild excursions, knowing we'll return home.” IfsKnowsWritingHeartMadeRealHomeAbleMemoriesKnowingRiskReturnFindingsTalesMapsCrucialDozenBlueprintsExcursions Author:Georgia Heard
“The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBodyRoomsWifeFindingsOriginalsTalesFairyFairy TaleCastles Author:Alice Hoffman
“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.” BookEndsMatterLightActionCoursesReadingDifficultFindingsPagesGardenTalesGoldenGrassChaptersAprilHappy EndingsSunnyOctober Author:Neil Gaiman
“A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.” PeopleBelieveSchoolOrderJesusBeliefDifficultBornClassProgressFindingsConscienceEnglandIncomeTalesFairyFairy TaleSectionsVirginsSalaryWhalesIngeniousJonahTwister Author:Upton Sinclair
“You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's tale.” MenLoveSoulStoriesHappensAgeJoyFallHeardFindingsFairsFalling In LoveMonstersTalesBeastHandsomeMonstrousHideousMaidsHandsome Men Author:Karen Maitland