Top 13 Lisa Cron Quotes

#1. Each scene in your story, ask yourself, If I cut it out, would anything that happens afterward change?

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#2. What draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the way.

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#3. Before there were books, we read each other.

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#4. MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps All
REALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time

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#5. Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.

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#6. If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.

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#7. Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.

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#8. You cherry-pick events that are relevant to the story question and construct a gauntlet of challenge (read: the plot) that will force the protagonist to put his money where his mouth is. Think baptism by ever-escalating fire.

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#9. Narrators are often unreliable, and part of the reader's pleasure is figuring out what's really true. The

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#10. You slogged from the terrifying emptiness of the blank page to the two most beautiful words in a writer's vocabulary: The End.

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#11. Stories are about people who are uncomfortable.

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#12. Elmore Leonard famously said that a story is real life with the boring parts left out.

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#13. And while in the olden days, disgruntled readers suffered pretty much in silence, now there's Amazon. The last thing you want are myriad scathing reviews that potential readers find helpful.

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