#ling

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #ling




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

Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.


Jennifer Weiner


#writing #storytelling