Anyone who says writing is easy isn’t doing it right.
Amy Block Joy
The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.
Andrew Stanton
Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Mary Jane Oliver
Everybody walks past a thousand stories every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
Orson Scott Card
If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in, the chances are very high that you will interest other people as well.
Rachel Carson
Instead of telling us a thing was “terrible,” make us feel terrified. Don’t say it was delightful; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description.
C.S. Lewis
Great stories happen to those who can tell them.
Ira Glass
No tribal chief or elder has ever handed out statistical reports, charts, or graphs, or lists to explain where the group is headed or what it must do.
Peg Neuhauser
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
Carolyn Heilbrun
People don’t think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride.
Jonah Berger
The story you are telling is only as good as the information in it: things you elicit, or things you observe that make a narrative come alive; things that support your point, not just through ; assertion, but through example; quotes that don’t just convey information, but personality… and then you have to write it in a way that is evident but not ham-fisted; available, there for the taking, but not spoon-fed.
Gene Weingarten
Readers young and old will forget the words you used. What they will never forget is how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou