Telling Stories Quotes
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I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.
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And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.
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But my body was telling its story. I have read a lot of stuff about cancer. I needed this book. I wish I'd had this book when I had cancer. I wanted someone to be talking to me about "fart floors." I wanted somebody telling me what it was like to have a colostomy bag. I felt so alone. And if you're a person who's been traumatized by past abuse, it's so potentially re-traumatizing. You slip right into "oh my god, this is the only person this has happened to before" mentality: "I'm especially bad and I have especially bad cancer..."
