Books Quote by Francine Prose

There's a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don't do it well or pull it off.

— Brad Anderson

Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.

— Ashly Lorenzana

Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.

— Dale Carnegie

I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need…

— Edward Rutherfurd

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

— Anonymous

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

— Jack Lowden

The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

— Baltasar Gracian

It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of them aren't…

— Michael Korda

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating…

— Siri Hustvedt

Stories have a way of telling themselves.

— W. Earl Brown

I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people…

— Donald Miller

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's…

— Truman Capote