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Christopher Booker

Christopher Booker Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Christopher Booker

Birthname

Educated At: Shrewsbury School, Corpus Christi College, Dragon School

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Journalist

Total quotes: 3

“We are in fact uncovering nothing less than a kind of hidden, universal language: a nucleus of situations and figures which are the very stuff from which stories are made.”

— Christopher Booker, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

Tagged: Poking Holes In Language, Universal, Pattern Finding in Narratives, Core, Core Profiles

“Overcoming the Monster
Rags to Riches
The Quest
Voyage and Return
Comedy
Tragedy
Rebirth”

— Christopher Booker, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

Tagged: Taxonomy Dictionaries, Storytelling, Story Archetypes

“Human imagination seems to be so constituted that it naturally works round certain ‘elemental’ shapes and images.”

— Christopher Booker, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

Tagged: DNA of Things, Core Concepts, Elemental Particles, Elementary Forces

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