Hannah Arendt Quotes

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

The metaphors exist for the stories.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.

A picture can say a thousand words but maybe not the correct ones.

It's not in my nature to be too literal.

I'm always curious what the world is trying to tell story wise.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations.

It all depends what you mean by.

A tale in everything.

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.