"Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told."

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Source : Jennifer McMahon (2011). “Don't Breathe a Word: A Novel”, p.34, Harper Collins

Jennifer McMahon

#Stories Quotes #Storytelling Quotes

“If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.”
“Daniel gave all the glory to God; he took none of it for himself. There is no limit to what God will do for the believer who will let God have all the glory.”
“Iâ€™m an ordinary girl who believed in her dream.”
“Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.”
“What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?”
“I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.”
“I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.”

Source : "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015.
“When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.”

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