Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
Lisa Cron
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“Before there were books, we read each other.”
“Story, as it turns out, was crucial to our evolution—more so than opposable thumbs. Opposable thumbs let us hang on; story told us what to hang on to.”
“Stories are about people who are uncomfortable.”
“Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.”
“...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.”
“We think in story. It’s hardwired in our brain. It’s how we make strategic sense of the otherwise overwhelming world around us.”
“each scene in your story, ask yourself, If I cut it out, would anything that happens afterward change?”
“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.”
“Elmore Leonard famously said that a story is real life with the boring parts left out.”
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