Pay attention Quote by Harlan Coben

“We need to interrupt any stories that are not in alignment with what we're doing.”

— Elena Aguilar

“We are at the mercy of our own narrative impulses.”

— Leah Hager Cohen

“But stories are just tools. They should not become our goals or our yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Anything that distracts from the story you are trying to tell should be promptly and mercilessly dealt with.”

— Craig Hart

“Throughout the narrative you will find many statements that are obviously nonsensical and quite at variance with common sense. For the most part these…

— Robert Gilmore

“But to those who can’t see it yet, everything comes in stories, creating readiness, nudging them toward receptive insight.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.”

— Walter Kirn

“Storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are.”

— Carmine Gallo

“A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.”

— Joan Silber

“We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.”

— N.D. Wilson

“But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [...]”

— Wes Moore

“Narrative Tension is primarily about witholding information.”

— Ian McEwan