Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.
Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools. - Marion Dane Bauer
Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools.
- Marion Dane Bauer
You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings so deep that… - Marion Dane Bauer
You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings so deep that…
another word for talent is obsession. - Marion Dane Bauer
another word for talent is obsession.
It is curious how believable I can be when I criticize myself, how unconvincing when I give myself praise. - Marion Dane Bauer
It is curious how believable I can be when I criticize myself, how unconvincing when I give myself praise.
my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there. - Marion Dane Bauer
my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.
Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enric… - Marion Dane Bauer
Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enric…
I used to tiptoe up to my bedroom door and leap into my room in an attempt to surprise my dolls in the midst of some kind of action. Unfortunately, t… - Marion Dane Bauer
I used to tiptoe up to my bedroom door and leap into my room in an attempt to surprise my dolls in the midst of some kind of action. Unfortunately, t…
Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts. - Marion Dane Bauer
Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.
I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place in my heart. It is the place where stories liv… - Marion Dane Bauer
I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place in my heart. It is the place where stories liv…
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