Storytelling Quote by John Green Download Open image ““Rule 1 of stories: no interrupting.”” — John Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Storytelling
“We need to interrupt any stories that are not in alignment with what we're doing.” — Elena Aguilar Copy Share Image
“ You started the story. Once you start a story, you have to make an end for it. That’s the rule. ” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“On Adventure - Adventure stories usually start by someone breaking the rules.” — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
“Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is how people… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
“Suddenly someone stops long enough to listen. And in that simple action, some marginalized person finally realizes that they actually have a story to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.” — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,… — John Green Copy Share Image
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
