#telling

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#feel #got #i #i feel #i feel like

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#explanations #patience #storytelling #storytelling

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book. ↗

— Mary Higgins Clark

#revenge #storytelling #storytelling

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it. ↗

— John Green

#introverts #profession #story #storytelling #writing

Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#storytelling

Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming. ↗

— William Goldman

#warnings #storytelling

Just a tiny little pain, Three days of heavy rain, Three days of sunlight, Everything will be alright, Just a tiny little pain. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#storytelling

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#storytelling

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it. ↗

— Robin McKinley

#storytelling #truth #storytelling

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting. ↗

— Stephen King

#storytelling #storytelling