Story Selling Quotes

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. ~ George Stephen

Story-selling is the secret to successful brand selling ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood. ~ John Tamihere

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence. ~ Ben Harper

If it's only a story, it becomes less frightening. The ~ Margaret Atwood

I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, 'Which are my big scenes?' and then get every drop of juice out of them. The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong first act he had practically nothing to do in the second act, he would walk out. Now, then, can I twist the story so as to give him plenty to do all the way through? ~ P.G. Wodehouse

Every real story is a never ending story. ~ Michael Ende

I noticed something: if I put a theme park in a story, my prose improved. ~ George Saunders

Once my gaze met his, it was impossible to look away. His eyes were like the cover of a book - giving you hints but not the whole story. And I wanted to know the story. If I searched his eyes long and hard enough, maybe what I craved would seep out. ~ Penelope Douglas

That a story has been told all over the place at some time or other, not only does not prove that it never really happened; it does not even faintly indicate or make slightly more probable that it never really happened. That a large number of fishermen have falsely asserted that have have caught a pile two feet long, does not in the least affect the question of whether anyone ever really did so. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Sometimes love takes you by the hand and leads you to run through fields of flowers while butterflies weave you a dress out of rainbows. Other times, love takes you by the throat and chokes you until all you see is the bright, sharp trail of shooting stars right before everything turns to black. The problem is, you can never tell in advance which way the story ends, not until you're too far into it, and you have no choice but to keep turning the pages. ~ Megan Hart

Every ounce of his soul tells him this will make a good story to tell his friends - an anecdote in the biography, an incident in the life. But part of the sorrow he feels - and it is that - comes from the distance he sees between himself and the storytelling, the hole that has ripped open between the here and the there. ~ David Levithan

Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there. ~ Priyanka Chopra

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened. ~ Ted Demme

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest. ~ Karen Russell

I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a defect, a limitation of my imagination. I could put myself in their position, but not politically. The idea of writing a story or a book about somebody completely devoid of appreciation of anything I care about is completely foreign to me. ~ Louis Auchincloss

But that is another story and shall be told another time. ~ Michael Ende

Insights shift us toward a new story, a new set of beliefs that are more accurate, more comprehensive, and more useful.
Our insights transform us in several ways. They change how we understand, act, see, feel, and desire. They change how we understand.They transform our thinking; our new story gives us a different viewpoint.
They change how we act.In some cases insights transform our abilities as well as our understanding ~ Gary Klein

If one day I should hear the hacker's slow, booted step on the stair, perhaps I'll suggest a cup of tea and try to get the story of his life. ~ Alix Kates Shulman

All he knew was that sometimes a man had to be grateful for normality, that a story could end less dramatically, and not half as badly as it might have done; that there was merit in an averted crisis, and that in finding his nephew Sidney had, at last, done something quietly responsible, without fuss or fanfare. Perhaps the rest of his life should be like this? he thought. It would involve a concentration on things close to the heart; a dedicated care of friends and family; a quieter existence, one that depended on listening harder and loving better; never resting in complacency; acknowledging faults, doubts and insecurities; the balance between solitude and company, the wish to escape and the need to come home: a loving attention. ~ James Runcie

fall into a story and fall in love ~ Tasha Lavoie

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it. ~ Mary E. Pearson

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep. ~ Corazon Aquino

This is what happens, when things are not quite a fairy tale.
You go into the woods to find your story. If you are brave, if you are fortunate, you walk out of them to find your life. ~ Kat Howard

The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story ~ Rebecca Makkai

Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice. ~ Valorie Curry

These days, in the world of apps and social media and … idiot friends, it is literally impossible to avoid spoilers.

If a character dies, it is gonna be the number one trending topic on Twitter, it is gonna be the top trending story on Facebook - and Reddit and Tumblr just turn into a completely uncensored memorial service of memes.

This happens all the time with sports results, but - I shit you not - I once got a notification from the BBC News app saying that a character in a show I was watching had just died! I thought that news notifications are supposed to be for impending natural disasters, not for just ruining my bloody afternoon. ~ Dan Howell

The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a million billion records. I like climbing mountains or going on undersea dives for whales and stuff like that. ~ Lupe Fiasco

Pulp is almost zen, very nearly pure stream of unconsciousness. Here´s a good guy. There´s a bad guy. They hit each other. Oh, the bad guy is unmasked and it´s the greedy banker who was trying to foreclose on the old Beesby place! Wow. Next story, please. ~ D.A. Madigan

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us. ~ Dean Koontz

It's easier to make up stories
than it is to write them down. When I speak, the words come pouring out of me. The story
wakes up and walks all over the room. Sits in a chair, crosses one leg over the other, says,
Let me introduce myself. Then just starts going on and on. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story. ~ Lynn Flewelling

For my little dog, Pip, who joined our family during the writing of
this story. Thanks for rescuing me. ~ Jackie Braun

When the night turns into morning
I want during the day, tell my story when evening twilight passed ~ Yorris Ys

Instead of hunting and gathering, instead of farming and harvesting in the area where we live, we are flying God's fruits and vegetables around the planet, not eating foods designed for our terrain and climate. We are distributing, selling and consuming "fresh foods" (or so the package says) days and weeks after they have been harvested. ~ Celso Cukierkorn