5 Great Quotations about Storytelling

“The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.” – J. Aleksandr Wootton

“Create a character with an obsession, then follow.” – Ray Bradbury

“When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.” – Howard Nemerov

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” – Hannah Arendt

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.” – James Van Pelt

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.

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