8 Multimodal StorytellingThe Medium Is the Message

DOI: 10.4324/9781003223849-8

I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely.

—William Shakespeare, The Tempest

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in the world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way . . .. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion – all in one.

—John Ruskin

As writers, what we do is remember. And to remember this world is to create it.

—Toni Morrison ...

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