“… through storytelling we share knowledge, recover from trauma, survive, thrive, re-build, testify…” Danny Denton QUOTES FOR WRITERS
And if “story” (be it journalism, memoir, poetry, fiction, chat, therapy, weather talk or whatever else) is our way of processing the things that happen to us and the things we do, then clearly it is through storytelling we share knowledge, recover from trauma, survive, thrive, re-build, testify. I’m endlessly interested in figuring out what the source of that is, and how it develops…..as long as we have story there might be hope in a fallen world, and, by extension, love and meaning might persist.
Danny Denton (Irish Times article 2018)
Photo credit: Lavi Perchik on Unsplash
4 comments on ““… through storytelling we share knowledge, recover from trauma, survive, thrive, re-build, testify…” Danny Denton QUOTES FOR WRITERS”
Leave a Reply
BACK TO CREATIVE WRITING SCHOOL — 120+ reviews on Amazon and over 75% gave it five stars
A Good Confession
"Unputdownable" Miriam Stoppard
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 
Yes , so we’ll said
Why stories matter…why it is one of our most basic instincts. When a child walks she dances. Give her a lump of chalk she draws and when she acquires language she needs stories and very very soon she tells he own…
absolutely, and why we blog
good quote!