Choices Quote by Robert Hunter

If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about…

— John Steinbeck

Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility.

— Philip Gerard

Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who…

— Michelle Richmond

I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice.

— Marie Lu

“In a story, you must always listen for the voice you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In that crushed…

— Patricia Storace

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

— John Steinbeck

“Story is revealed not in telling, but in listening.”

— Katharine Haake

“No story lives unless someone wants to listen.”

— J.K. Rowling

You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And…

— Kerry Washington

“People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the job of the storyteller.”

— Cecelia Ahern

A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.

— Robert Barron