“I've become keenly aware that we literally do live in a world of shout-y walls. And if that isn't distracting enough, my phone contains the voices of billions on Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook. But Montag is right when he said that, 'Nobody feels listened to,' because too often, we don't listen to…”— John Green, youtube.com
“It is those stories, the ones that could hold up to microscopic observations, that can fill us up and can fill us in.”— John Green, youtube.com
“One of the craziest things about The Great Gatsby is there's always some debaucherous party going on, and no one is ever having any fun. Like, everybody in that room just wants more money and more class, and they wanna, like, find a way to get a better life, except for Tom Buchanan, who has what the…”— John Green, youtube.com
“I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likable characters with whom you can have some simple identification. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make your brain go all like ahbd…”— John Green, youtube.com
“Obviously this is an appealing idea for a writer because I need to believe that made-up stories can really matter in the lives of real people.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Sometimes I feel like relationships consist of telling your same life stories to different people until someone finally appreciates them.”— Kate Rockland, amazon.com
“As he inflates his imagination, he inflates his capacity for anxiety, and inevitably becomes the victim of crushing phobias that can only be allayed by crushing doses of heroin or alcohol.”— John Cheever, amazon.com
“We are told stories as children to help us bridge the abyss between waking and sleeping. We tell stories to our own children for the same purpose. When I find myself in danger -- caught on a stuck ski-lift in a blizzard -- I immediately start telling myself stories. I tell myself stories when I am i…”— John Cheever, amazon.com
“Nevertheless, there is important work to be done in philosophy, journalism, biography, and other genres that may never be bestsellers but are just as important to society. Such stories are like elegant math problems that, while not applicable to a wide audience, are still useful to those who know ho…”— Chris Lavergne, techcrunch.com
“A partner with nothing to hide will give you consistent stories that don’t have big gaps of information.”— Marissa Laliberte, rd.com
“He never exaggerates. Whenever he is telling a story, you know that he is recalling it detail for detail. His ability to stick to the truth is something that is highly admirable about him- whereas many other men are often temped to exaggerate a story to show off.”— Julia Kitlinski-Hong, lifehack.org
“I miss you the most during the day when I want to text you to tell you about random silly moments that popped up throughout my day.”— Alexandria Brown, thoughtcatalog.com
“When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams and from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“Don’t overthink your content. Use Snapchat as a place to refine the ideas you want to test or that you don’t have a home for anywhere else. Some of the best content is the least complicated.”— Mark Renfree, prnewsonline.com
“You can tell stories though separate snaps, but make sure that each is a stand-alone, shareable moment.”— Mark Renfree, prnewsonline.com
“I believe that theres is one story in the world, and only one… Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil… there is no other story.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com