Storytelling Quote by Percival Everett Download Open image ““The lie felt good because I had taken control of the narrative around me. The”” — Percival Everett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Storytelling
“A lie is just a really great story that someone ruined with the truth.” — Barney Stinson Copy Share Image
“Seems to me that the important thing about a lie is not the content, but the way it is told, the spirit of it.… — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“If you tell one lie, you have to tell more to keep the first lie alive. A story is a good lie with an… — Kelvin Kwa Copy Share Image
“In my defense, I could have dispensed with the truth entirely and told a much better story. Lies are simpler, and most of the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it helps to lie. You tell yourself a story, even if you don't know the ending.” — Megan Mayhew Bergman Copy Share Image
“A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Replacing one word for another is ridiculous... The intention of it is where the problem resides, not in the spelling and pronunciation.” — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in this… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it’s not just that mechanics and plumbers don’t read literary fiction, it’s that doctors and lawyers… — Percival Everett Copy Share
“Like most people I am smarter than some, dumber than others, skinnier than most, and fatter than a few, but none was ever more confused than I was. I flew with confusion always parallel to me, and a whole internal chase at my rear. The one matter that was not confusing to me, but seemed to escape all the others,… — Percival Everett Copy Share
“I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol, but my… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy Talk' is… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“How's Mother?" "In and out." As I said it I wondered which was the bad way: in or out? Was she lost when she… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway. — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly through the roller coaster of a ride. The depth of the novel was evidenced by the constantly shifting meaning of the title itself. In fact, the entire work never changes its meaning, but somehow, seamlessly, simply means more.… — Percival Everett Copy Share
“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 can have it. I'm giving it to you. After I'm gone, write it down. Explain everything. Make it mean something. Use a lot of those fancy metaphors of yours. Put the whole thing in proper chronological… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“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 be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if… — David Brin Copy Share
“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
