"History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground."
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"Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through."
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"When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both."
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"Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked."
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"Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories."
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"The spiritual journey is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living."
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"Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are."
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"We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story."
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