The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.
As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish.
I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.
A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.
I truly believe in the value that stories have in being able to elevate humanity and make the world a better place.
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.