Quotes About Engagement

The most boring thing in the entire world, Brandy says, is nudity. The second most boring thing, she says, is honesty. ...The third most boring thing in the entire world is your sorry-assed past. So Brandy never asked me anything.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

Ideally, you should be combining gesture, action, and expression with your dialogue.

People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak.

Leggere non è un passatempo da comitiva. Non è come andare a vedere un film o assistere a un concerto. È il margine più solitario dello spettro.

The way to make most women break eye contact is to run your tongue around your lips. The ones who dont look away, for serious, bingo.

And the moment she says hello, I wouldn't hang up. I'd say, 'Hi. What's happening? Tell me every little thing.

We use criticism as a fake participation.

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.

I write: All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

La única razón por la que preguntamos a la gente qué tal le ha ido el fin de semana es para poder contar cómo nos ha ido el nuestro.

No! Don't deal with this the way those dead people do. Deal with it the way a living person does.

Dialogue is a little bit jazz, a little bit hand-to-hand combat.

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story

We're here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

Democracy is not in need of defense. People are.

Conflict is the food that feeds the reader. It's a spicy hell-broth that nourishes.

Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.

A storyteller makes us feel something. Makes us give a shit when we have no good reason to do so. Fun is not the last stop on the story train. The storyteller is master manipulator. The storyteller is cackling puppetmaster.

Hollis Copper knows that everyone has a story and if you want to speak to someone, you better find a way to speak to his or her story.

This is not a book of writing advice. It's not here to help make you a better writer. Rather, it's here to help you become a better storyteller.

T?cerea face parte din conversa?ie.

It isnt for want of something to say-- something to tell you-- something you should know-- but to detain you-- keep you from going-- feeling myself here as long as you are-- as long as you are