Storytelling sayings

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◆ It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

- Patrick Rothfuss99

◆ There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

- Stephen King99

◆ You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

- Erin Morgenstern99

◆ Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

- Alan Moore99

◆ funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

- Sarah Dessen99

◆ No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

- Lewis Carroll99

◆ Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

- Willa Cather99

◆ The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...

- Stephen King99

◆ There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

- Doris Lessing99

◆ You can fix anything but a blank page.

- Nora Roberts99

◆ When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

- Mary Higgins Clark99

◆ The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

- Brandon Sanderson99

◆ All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

- Leo Tolstoy99

◆ Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

- Sue Monk Kidd99

◆ We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

- Joan Didion99