Quotes about Storytelling

How well your readers connect with and care about this character determines the success of a story. In other words, if they've emotionally gone on the journey with the character, suffered with and experienced the joys and triumphs of the character, as well as learned the lessons and truths, only then have you, the author, done your job.

Ruthie handed me a leather-bound notebook and said she wanted me to fill it with everything I could remember.

Comics deal with fundamental archetypes. We've been called the myth-makers of the modern age.

I can say that my narrative project is as difficult today as it was then.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

I don't like message movies either.

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.