“You write from what you know but you write into what you don’t know.” –Grace Paleyģ6. It requires individuality, thoughtfulness, and critical thinking.” –Jane Friedmanģ5. “Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very ’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” –Mark Twainģ4. “There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demand the redemptive act, that demands what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.” –Flannery O’Connorģ3. “You can’t write unless you read.” –David Sedarisģ2. But tell me a story, and it will live in heart forever.” –Native American Proverbģ1. “Great stories happen to those who can tell them.” –Ira Glassģ0. “You’re never going to kill storytelling because it’s built into the human plan. “There is no greater power on this earth than story.” –Libba BrayĢ8. “Stories create community, enable us to see through the eyes of other people, and open us to the claims of others.” –Peter ForbesĢ7. ![]() “That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.” –CS LewisĢ6. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed.” –Ernest HemingwayĢ5. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.” –Eudora WeltyĢ4. “Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. “There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they never happened.” –Willa CatherĢ3. I do all the thinking beforehand.” –RL StineĢ2. I think that’s the reason I’m so prolific-I take a week and I plan everything. “Everyone hates to outline-when I tell kids that I outline every book, they hate it! No one likes to outline-but I can’t work without one. I always listen for what I can best leave out.’” –Matt WeilandĢ1. “The best advice for writing a book comes from Miles Davis. “Just sit down and shamelessly write the thing yourself.” –Seymour GlassĢ0. But you knew from the way they were talking, what they said, you knew who the characters were.” –Elmore Leonardġ9. There’d be dialogue straight down and just a little bit of description of people. There was always a lot of whitespace on his pages. ![]() “I think I learned as much as I could from Hemingway because he made it look easy. “If you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer.” –Ray Bradburyġ8. Every sentence is an innovation.” –John Cheeverġ7. “One never puts down a sentence without the feeling that it has never been put down before in such a way, and that perhaps even the substance of the sentence has never been felt. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” –CS Lewisġ6. “When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. “Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses.” –Aleks Krotoskiġ5. “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” –Brandon Sandersonġ4. “Stories constitute the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal.” –Dr. It is our chief means of looking into the future, or predicting, of planning, and of explaining.” –Mark Turnerġ2. Narrative imagining-story-is the fundamental instrument of thought. “The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.” –Paulo Coelhoġ1. “Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.” –Robert McKeeġ0. “Connect with your audience through stories people love.” –Shafqat Islamĩ. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” –Anne LamottĨ. “You own everything that happened to you. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.” –Jonathan Gottschallħ. “We are, as a species, addicted to story. ![]() “The basic rule of storytelling is ‘show, don’t tell.’ –Julianna BaggottĦ. “At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.” –Anne Lamottĥ. “You must stay drunk on writing, so reality cannot destroy you.” –Ray BradburyĤ. “There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.” –JK Rowlingģ. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in all places, in all times.” –Rives CollinsĢ. “Storytelling is among the oldest forms of human communication. Great quotes about storytelling and quotes by great storytellers inspire us to dig deep and to tell our best stories.ġ.
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