Storytelling Quotes

Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become.

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

Reading sparks writing.

How you feel after reading something indicates not what you’ve read but where you are at.

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind.

Yes, if the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story.

The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories.

Time is a strange storyteller. It writes, erases and rewrites endlessly. Things change, places and people become unrecognizable, but stories are repeated endlessly

There is wisdom out there that can’t be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won’t condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.

Stop making excuses and start making history.

Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time.

The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.

Nothing opens up the mind and the heart like books do, and so they have the power to change the whole world. That's why the are burning books, Ava. To stop us thinking, and feeling, and imagining...

Creativity is nature. Nature is creativity.

If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online.

We encounter truth within.

Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.

Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart.

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.

Love is the answer.

Explore your own peace.

Take a deep breath. Inhale peace. Exhale happiness.

In love there is truth, and in truth there is peace.

Find peace in knowing.

If you read stories, you find the strength, faith and hope to survive everyday life.

Hold on to your heart and life will give you wings.

Gratefulness heightens awareness.

Your life should reflect your heart.

Lead with your heart. The rest will follow.

Listen to what speaks to your heart.

Create from the heart.

I think today is a day for the heart. What do you think?

Speak from the heart and feel your tension melt away.

As long as it comes from the heart, in the end, it will be good.

Pour your heart onto the page.

Write truthfully, write from the heart, and your words will live.

The heart of a story gives it life.

Write from the heart… always.

Listen when your heart speaks.

You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable, " she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."“Beautiful and full of monsters?"“All the best stories are.

I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.

Stories are like islands, go out exploring and you're bound to get lost fantastically.

A writer's role was never just to tell stories, but to create a world to encompass and share with others.

I write what the Holy Spirit put on my mind.