Books Quote by Toni Morrison

“This chapter is an attempt to share with you some insights about story listening and how to do it.”

— John S. Savage

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”

— Anne Rice

“Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“If something must be said, it will say itself. The writer's task is to listen.”

— Dalia Sofer

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

— Katharine Haake

“As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to…

— Philip Yancey

“Writing is the silence of the soul struggling to be heard”

— GBickle

“Sound gives life to our words just as well as the images they conjure up and the sound is there, whether or not we…

— A.A. Patawaran

“It don't take no great skill to write down a story. All you have to do is put one word after the next and…

— Kei Miller

“In order to be heard, an author must have readers...”

— Rachel Heffington

“I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or…

— Joan Didion

“A writer’s silence is the loudest scream; it’s the unwritten chapters of their life that echo in the emptiness of their soul.”

— Dr. Nitin Chopra