“I've come to understand that the Bible was a great story well crafted, written and promoted to change human beings -Edy kasawuli”

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“As a creative I came to understand that alone I do little and together we do more extraordinary creations -Edy kasawuli”

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“If I could look back and appreciate our forefathers, I would thank them for being orderly in burying the same people of the same lineage in one cemetery -Edy kasawuli”

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“Even in stories written by exceptional writers, even when they write a well-crafted piece…the mother is a cliché, though it might be a good rendering of a cliché.”

Alfre Woodard (1952) American film, stage, and television actress

On how mothers are typically portrayed in “Alfre Woodard Redefines Black Motherhood On Screen In ‘Juanita’” https://shadowandact.com/alfre-woodard-redefines-black-motherhood-on-screen-in-juanita in Shadow and Act (2019 Mar 11)

“Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.”

Isaac Babel (1894–1940) Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer

“Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.”

Anu Garg (1967) Indian author

“It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great – the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”

F. R. Leavis book The Great Tradition

The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad (London: Chatto & Windus, 1948) p. 2

“You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.”

Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer

Source: Anthony De Mello : Writings (1999), p. 8
Context: A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: "You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story."

“And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.”

Ryū Murakami book Almost Transparent Blue

Almost Transparent Blue (1976)

“I've come to understand that the Bible was a great story well crafted, written and promoted to change human beings -Edy kasawuli”

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