Quotes About Storytelling

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it.

A good story conveys a message that strengthens our values.

Una novela no sólo cuenta, sino que nos permite asistir a una historia o a unos acontecimientos o a un pensamiento

Entusiasmo significa «rapto divino». De en-theos, estar con Theos, con lo sagrado. Conectar con el impulso creador. Dejarse arrastrar por la fuerza de lo que se desea contar.

La motivación para escribir un buen libro la da el tener algo importante que contar.

Most people are glad to talk about their successes.

Once, while traveling in the eastern edge of the district, he arrived at a small town late in the afternoon, jumped from the car, headed straight to the hotel, and invited everyone in the bar to have a drink—on him. Only after the bartender began pouring did Roosevelt think to ask where he was: Sharon, Connecticut, not only the wrong district but the wrong state. Undaunted, Roosevelt grinned and paid up; and then proceeded to reuse the story and the joke for years.

Tristram Shandy

A song moves a story fast or slow like the river moves the water.

The matters I relateAre true lies.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

All he had ever wanted was to tell—in the best possible words, arranged in the best possible order—the stories inside him.

Either it's a good plot or it isn't. And if it's not a good plot, the best writing isn't going to help. And if it is, the worst writing isn't going to hurt it.

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

Scratch an Irishman and he'll bleed a story.

Ce n'est pas une autobiographie qu'on devrait écrire mais dix, mais cent, car, si nous n'avons qu'une vie, nous disposons d'innombrables manières de (nous) la raconter.

comme beaucoup de Marseillais, les récits de voyages me comblaient plus que les voyages eaux-mêmes / come molti marsigliesi, i racconti di viaggi mi incantavano più dei viaggi stessi.

What happens in stories is what happens in stories: the telling and retelling simplify and reduce. History gets written in the wind that keeps blowing; if it's not too strong you don't even notice it. The lights are bright and there's so much shouting and scrambling.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Their storytelling grew richer. One evening, Ali was consumed by a memory. She saw three ripe lemons on the wooden cutting board in her mother's kitchen, right down to the sunlight spangling off their pores. She heard her mother singing while they rolled pie dough in a storm of flour.

Stories are the building blocks of communication between developers and those who use their work. Story maps organize and structure these building blocks, and thus enhance this communication process — which is the most critical part of software development itself.

Stories get their name from how they should be used, not what should be written.

Stories get their name not from how they're supposed to be written, but from how they're supposed to be used.

I'd forced books on my kids from the day they were born and, as it turned out, it had been completely unnecessary because all of them liked to read. Or maybe they liked to read because I'd read aloud nearly every children's book in print.