Enough with the lights, Rapunzel! You are not leaving this tower! Ever! … Great. Now I’m the bad guy. - Mother Gothel, Tangled

At its very core, marketing is storytelling. The best advertising campaigns take us on an emotional journey - appealing to our wants, needs, and desires - while at the same time telling us about a product or service. - Melinda Partin

We tell stories because we have a hollow place in our heart. You don’t fill that with success. You fill it by finding yourself in the stories you tell. - Guillermo Del Toro

They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands. - John Green

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

I always read books twice. The first time, you appreciate the story. The second time, you appreciate the writing. - Anonymous

The brain is like the muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout. - Stewart Stafford

It’s not enough to be busy… The question is: what are we busy about? - Henry David Thoreau

I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they’re writing nice sentences, even if it isn’t adding up to much. - James Patterson

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock. - B.J. Chute

There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome. - Mark Twain

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works. - Virginia Woolf

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. - Mortimer J. Adler

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before. - Joseph Campbell

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight. - Jane Austen

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come. - Steve Jobs

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. - Stephen King

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players - William Shakespeare

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Wayne Dyer