“If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way”

— Patrick Rothfuss, book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

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American fantasy writer 1973

Frances Hardinge book Fly by Night

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“Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story”

Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist

“I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

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“The straightest way to the heart of old matters is an old letter.”

Edgar A. Singer, Jr. (1873–1954) American philosopher

Source: Modern thinkers and present problems, (1923), p. 3 : Chapter 1. Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600

“To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

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“Whenever you make a figure of a man or of some graceful animal remember to avoid making it seem wooden; that is it should move with counterpoise and balance in such a way as not to seem a block of wood.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter

“Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

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“Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath… It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.”

Annie Barrows book The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.”

Wú Chéng'ēn (1500–1582) Chinese writer

Source: Monkey: A Journey to the West

“If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way”

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