Inventing Stories Quotes

• People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.

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  Chuck Palahniuk

  Morning   Sex   White  

  Source: content.time.com

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• We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.

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  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Philosophy   Fall   Men  

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• She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

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  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Beautiful   Book   Facts  

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

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  Roald Dahl

  Writing   Stories   Pleasure  

  Roald Dahl (2000). “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”, p.233, Penguin

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• It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.

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  William Kittredge

  Art   War   Believe  

  William Kittredge (2002). “Owning It All: Essays”, Graywolf Pr

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• I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

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  Suzanne Vega

  Character   Stories   Inventing  

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