Storytelling Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“I tentatively attempted to make contact with the muscles in my body. They told me to leave them the fuck alone.”

— Richelle Mead

“Every molecule in Jason’s body told him he was on enemy ground.”

— Rick Riordan

“we don't know he's dead do we? Have we seen a body? Has anyone told us he's dead?" I didn't say anything," he protested.…

— Adam Bagdasarian

“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

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

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“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

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

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

We can never tell what is in store for us.

— Harry S. Truman

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

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

“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?”

— Christopher Bram

“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