Stories are data with a soul. Brené Brown, found at swissmiss.
Tag Archives: storytelling
If you took our two good male characters Max and Nux out of the movie, Furiosa and the girls (and to a lesser extent the Vuvalini) would still have motivations and character development and narrative arcs. But if you took the women out of the movie, the men aren’t left with a plot of their …
It’s kind of like storytelling s & m – sort of an alternate world in which Martin’s punches land, and they land hard enough that we feel them, but not so hard that we have to use our safe word. Once we heal, we might want to come back for another session. Jesse Thorn on …
Ira Glass … has said that “the power of anecdote is so great that it has a momentum in and of itself.” He contends, “no matter how boring the facts are,” with a well-told story, “you feel inherently as if you are on a train that has a destination.” Your Brain on Story Complement with …
Stories are powerful because they transport us into other people’s worlds but, in doing that, they change the way our brains work and potentially change our brain chemistry — and that’s what it means to be a social creature. Brain Pickings (via rojospinks)
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind (via quotes-shape-us)
Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. Colum McCann Zoli. (2007) (via amandaonwriting)