#telling

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#book #character #compelling #draw #drove

Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore. ↗

— Cameron Dokey

#retellings #sleeping-beauty #beauty

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#believed #comes #dad #fights #getting

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#great #i #kings #old #palaces

Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day. ↗

— Nina Hagen

#day #every #every day #great #i

Now I know you should listen to what your body is telling you. ↗

— Delta Goodrem

#i #know #listen #now #should

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#anything #artist #because #collage #control

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come. ↗

— John Green

#believer #big #big believer #classics #cold

Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#change the world #going #growing #growing up #how

When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#going #hand #just #much #peers