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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. - Ital

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. – Italo Calvino

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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. – Italo Calvino

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Books
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Italo Calvino
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following ones nose, taking shortcuts. – Italo Calvino

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Romantic
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Storytelling
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You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story. – Anthony De Mello

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Under the Earth I go,
On the oak leaf I stand.
I ride on the filly
That was never foaled,
And I carry the dead in my hand. – Anon.

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Writing a story allows us to play with our imaginary friends when we are adults. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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The child began reading favorite stories of magic to the river, believing the tales would be carried to someone in need. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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I gave in, and admitted that God was God. – C. S. Lewis

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. – Voltaire

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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. – Rabindranath Tagore

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