"Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts."

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Source : Marion Dane Bauer (1992). “What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Marion Dane Bauer

#Heart Quotes #Stories Quotes #Mysterious Quotes

“Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.”
“An athletic scholarship shouldnâ€™t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.”
“I'm a heart-on-the-sleeves kind of person.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.”
“The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.”
“I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.”
“Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gather there in after times what manhood could do and dare for right, and what high examples of virtue and valor have gone before them. But let us make our offering to the ever-living soul. Let us build our benefactions in the ever-growing heart, that they shall live and rise and spread in blessing beyond our sight, beyond the ken of man and beyond the touch of time.”
“Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning,”

Source : "Bob Feller, Whose Fastball Dazzled, Dies at 92" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2010.

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