Stories are made of scenes, but scenes aren’t just a way to get from A-C, each scene is a story with its own beginning, middle and end, and its own emotional arc.
– J. Michael Straczynski
Tag: stories
Quotable 452
The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings.
– Arundhati Roy
Quotable 430
To write you have to have stories you want to tell, you have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
– Tracy Kidder
Quotable 405
The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
– Jack London
Quotable 337
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.
– Octavia Butler
Quotable 300
The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
– Pete Seeger
Quotable 286
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
– Neil Gaiman
Quotable 285
We live by stories. It’s the principle by which we organize our experience.
– Tobias Wolff
Quotable 284
The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
– Alan Rickman
Author’s Note: Catsignal Turns 10
Catsignal is not the happy, boisterous 10-year-old I had once envisioned it would be. The earlier days of weekly stories are long gone. The occasional haiku and even more occasional essay are about all that happen around here anymore. If ever I find the cognitive power to change that, I will. At present, chronic fatigue syndrome keeps me sleepy and brain-fogged.
On this anniversary, it seems more reasonable to look back rather than ahead. So, for those who might like to revisit the old days – or if you’re new here and wonder where to begin – here is a short list of some of my favorite stories, in chronological order.
Red Riding Hood and the Wolves
The Last Reunion of the Capper Gang
Angels We Have Heard While High