Cliona Chee

“While our modern culture is replete with stories incorporating every imaginable setting, plot and character, the history of storytelling has been characterised by the retelling of a few basic stories, involving a selection of core character types.”
― Daniel Smith

“I can remember Grandma telling stories about little nest makers leaving wards in the wild. The details would shift and change as she got older, but it always involved Saint Vinson's crystal spider and a wandering soul haunted by nightmares.”
― John Michael Bauer, Besnowed

“If man, as the existentialist sees him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterwards will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre