Story Selling Quotes

#1. Story-selling is the secret to successful brand selling

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#2. I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

Morgan Spurlock

#3. For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

George Stephen

#4. The lesson: The power of your story isn't just a way to connect to your ultimate consumer but is also a means of making you attractive to potential partners who want to attach themselves to something deeper than buying and selling.

Blake Mycoskie

#5. Readers often tell me after they've read the books, they find it difficult to sum up the plot in a simple way. My response is, "It's a story about the love a father shares for his daughter. All the rest is just filler."
- MJ Mancini, on his best-selling trilogy, "Revelation".

M.J. Mancini

#6. I descended into solitude so thick that conversations with repairmen became anxious social occasions.

Louisa Hall

#7. If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.

Kiran Desai

#8. We finish our own story. The details of our journey are still a mystery.

Steven Cuoco

#9. We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.

Tennessee Williams

#10. It's always a metaphor when a bird shits on your head.

Seth Kupchick

#11. I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.

K.A. Applegate

#12. Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

Rudy Rucker

#13. Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#14. Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.

Nicholas Sparks

#15. The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Abraham Maslow

#16. I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I'm a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. I love to do fashion. I always put fashion in all of my storytelling because that's what I am, but I'm not selling clothes, I'm telling a story.

Patricia Field

#18. It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

W. Somerset Maugham

#19. University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption decision, it's an investment decision. Actually, no, it's a bad consumption decision. Most colleges are four-year parties.

Peter Thiel

#20. Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. Men are shameless in selling their story. Women are often reserved. So we do need to encourage women to know their story and then tell it strategically as to how they can add value.

Jenny Shipley

#22. This isn't a thrift store ... We're not selling them something less expensive, we're selling them something more special. We have to tell them the story of what we're showing them. And then we have to show them how they can be the new heroine in the story.

Erin McKean

#23. The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.

Bella Abzug

#24. I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

Mark Knopfler

#25. There was no lightbulb moment in the story of the lightbulb. By the time Edison flipped the switch at the Pearl Street station, a handful of other firms were already selling their own models of incandescent electric lamps.

Steven Johnson