Storytelling Quotes

The best writing is embarrassing, that’s all there is to it.

~ A.d. Posey

When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation.

~ A.d. Posey

Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself.

~ A.d. Posey

The story becomes clearer with time.

~ A.d. Posey

Screenwriting is like poker; in the end, you have to go all in.

~ A.d. Posey

Storytelling keeps life going.

~ A.d. Posey

Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.

~ A.d. Posey

I think every writer has a little freak in ‘em.

~ A.d. Posey

Make your writing memorable.

~ A.d. Posey

Every object holds a story.

~ A.d. Posey

Sometimes you’re the protagonist and someone else is the hero.

~ A.d. Posey

At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It’s like distilling something.

~ A.d. Posey

A true piece of writing sets you free.

~ A.d. Posey

Just surrender to the story.

~ A.d. Posey

It ends when you’re ready for a new beginning.

~ A.d. Posey

One must learn the rules so one can break them properly.

~ A.d. Posey

I am free to write: therefore, I am free to be.

~ A.d. Posey

Screenwriting is made of brevity.

~ A.d. Posey

You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk.

~ A.d. Posey

Novelist by day, screenwriter by night.

~ A.d. Posey

The key is in the craft.

~ A.d. Posey

We write until we find our way. Then the real fun begins.

~ A.d. Posey

When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity.

~ A.d. Posey

Writers don’t write about just anybody.

~ A.d. Posey

Write before the sun comes up.

~ A.d. Posey

Own your truth.

~ A.d. Posey

In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens.

~ A.d. Posey

It’s always more than just a story.

~ A.d. Posey

Let your story breathe and be what it really is.

~ A.d. Posey

Take your ego out of your story.

~ A.d. Posey

Life is sacred story.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.

~ Bryan Way

By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.

~ Matthew Pearl

Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.

~ Amy Bloom

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

~ Lewis Carroll

It's in The Lord of the Rings, I think, where one of the characters says that way leads on to way; that you could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go . . . well, anywhere at all. It's the same way with stories. One leads to the next, to the next, and to the next; maybe they go in the direction you wanted to go, but maybe they don't. Maybe in the end it's the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters.

~ Stephen King

He prefers his adventures second hand.

~ Sara Sheridan

I need to tell you a story, a tale of fate and emergence.

~ Emma Richler

Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.

~ Charlotte Beers