Storytelling Quote by Simon Brown Download Open image ““Any narrative should complement the diagram rather than explain it.”” — Simon Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Storytelling
“There was a terminal narrative. It was a story until it stopped being a story and until then they kept wanting to know. Give… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
“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
“We pay attention to what works with our narrative. We tend to dismiss that which does not.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“A good plot is like a well-crafted puzzle. Each piece is vital to the bigger picture, connecting to each other to tell the larger… — Janice Hardy 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
“It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Author discussed what he calls the "narrative fallacy." This refers to our "limited ability" to look at a sequence of facts "without weaving an… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you don’t formulate your own narrative, you become a pawn in someone else’s.” — James Scott, co-founder, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
“To follow the analogy, as a Reader, you're not part of the story, you just insert yourself into it for a while.” — Django Wexler Copy Share Image
“Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“unlike the building industry, the software development industry lacks a standard, consistent way to think about, describe and visually communicate software architecture” — Simon Brown Copy Share Image
“colour coding to decipher. Can you work out what the colour coding means? Is it related to input vs output functions? Or perhaps it’s… — Simon Brown Copy Share Image
“All joking aside, these diagrams do suffer from one or more of the following problems: • Notation (e.g. colour coding, shapes, etc) is not… — Simon Brown 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
