A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the deeply personal and creative nature of storytelling.
Katherine Anne Porter's quote illustrates how storytelling is an intrinsic process, akin to a spider spinning its web. It reflects the passion and care an author invests in their narrative, treating it as a cherished creation, much like a parent loves their child. This suggests that stories are not just fabricated tales but extensions of the storyteller's own experiences and emotions.
In practice
This quote could be shared at a writing workshop to inspire aspiring authors.
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.
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Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
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Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.
I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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