Stacey Abrams Quotes

I love a really good storyline.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

Leadership requires the ability to engage and to create empathy for communities with disparate needs and ideas. Telling an effective story - especially in romantic suspense - demands a similar skill set.

I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

Useful lessons can be learned from our more successful local authorities - as you move into government, it is even more imperative to communicate speedily and persuasively with your members and your voters.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact.

Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.

When I see an image in my head that compels me, where there's this mystery about what's going to happen next or could happen next, I'll be intrigued. There are so many scripts that you read, and you know exactly what's going to happen, and there aren't too many where you can't tell within the first 20 pages where it's going.

President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?

I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.

Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.

I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

I hate plots.

It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.

When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next.

A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.