Storytelling Quote by John Grisham Download Open image ““had a flair for the narrative”” — John Grisham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Storytelling
“If you don't have a narrative, just make one up. You can always change it when you have more clarity. Any narrative beats no… — L. R. W. Lee Copy Share Image
“Story is one of the foundation stones of the human mind along with rhythm and chant. If a collection of facts lacks a narrative… — Frank Vehafric Copy Share Image
“Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose. ” — Will Blythe Copy Share Image
“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,” — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.” — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Cuando duermes, engañas al sistema. El tiempo del sueño te pertenece a ti y no al Estado.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“The Senator did not know who owned the jet, nor had he ever met Mr. Trudeau, which in most cultures would seem odd since… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“What kind of name is Siler-Spence? I mean, what's wrong with these women who use hyphens? What if her name was Skowinski and she… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“In that case, the truck driver took the stand, swore to tell the truth, then lied for three hours. He said Gretchen crossed the… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
In my case, once you sell a lot of books and you are labeled a bestselling author, the serious critics are never gonna say… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social… — John Grisham 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
