Cron Quotes

#1. 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.

Lisa Cron

#2. One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

Lisa Loeb

#3. Being in war itself is a gallant, awards are mere decorations.

Pushpa Rana

#4. I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I listen to some of my old stuff, I can tell when I had a good idea, but I forced it through, and I can hear myself - the bit that I've written, which sounds clunkier than the stuff that just sort of comes.

Nick Lowe

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

Lisa Cron

#6. First, if Francis were around today, he'd say our church community relies too much on words to tell others about our faith. For Francis, the gathered community was as potent a form of witness as words. He was convinced that how we live together is what attracts people to faith.

Ian Morgan Cron

#7. Mikolay and Julia live in the same neighborhood and go to
the same school every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Magda M. Olchawska

#8. When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

Eric Weiner

#9. Life always comes down to who's driving

Ian Morgan Cron

#10. [The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Lisa Cron

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

Lisa Cron

#13. Stories are about people who are uncomfortable.

Lisa Cron

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

Lisa Cron

#15. Father Alexander Schmemann is an Orthodox scholar who wrote a book called For the Life of the World. He says the liturgy is a journey that proceeds from the kingdom of this world into a brief encounter with the kingdom of God, and then back out again to bear witness to it.

Ian Morgan Cron

#16. 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.

Lisa Cron

#17. the object of all great art is beauty, and it makes us nostalgic for God. Whether we consider ourselves people of faith or not, art arouses in us what the pope calls a 'universal desire for redemption.

Ian Morgan Cron

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

Lisa Cron

#19. ..."love always stoops.

Ian Morgan Cron

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

Lisa Cron

#21. 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.

Lisa Cron

#22. Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

Buddy Guy

#23. She taught me how to ride the Dragon Coaster and what to do when you're flung into the mouth of whatever it is you think will kill you. Throw up your arms and laugh until you come out the other side.

Ian Morgan Cron

#24. Francis taught me that if we spent less time worrying about how to share our faith with someone on an airplane and more time thinking about how to live radically generous lives, more people would start taking our message seriously.

Ian Morgan Cron

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

Lisa Cron

#26. His will to live was waning, and it made him almost transparent, as though rather than dying, he might just disappear one day, leaving behind only a vague scent of regret.

Ian Morgan Cron

#27. I was drunk with belonging.

Ian Morgan Cron

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

Lisa Cron

#29. More often than not, Jesus comes to us incognito.

Ian Morgan Cron

#30. There is a big difference in life between a jump and a fall. A jump is about courage and faith, something the world is in short supply of these days. A fall is, well, a fall.

Ian Morgan Cron

#31. 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.

Lisa Cron

#32. It's like what Gandhi said: The world is so hungry for God that God could only come as a piece of bread. We so long for joy that God even risked coming into the world in the form of intoxication, that risky thing called wine.

Ian Morgan Cron

#33. To be the altar boy at the first Mass of the day was a sacred initiation rite. It was like being hazed at a fraternity, only more Catholic.

Ian Morgan Cron

#34. Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' may have had a greater impact on my development as a writer than any other book I ever read.

Eric Flint