Cameron Dokey Quotes

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.

A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

Some stories are true that never happened.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

There is a beauty of seeing a picture and making out what the story behind it might be.

The more stories I told, the more I found I wanted to tell. There was always something left unsaid. I got hooked by my own impulse of 'Well, what's gonna happen next?'

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts

The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this.