Storytelling Quotes · Page 45

Your time has come to pick the road you walk in this tale.

— Claudio Sanchez

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

— Saul Friedlander

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

— Anonymous

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a very special story.

— Reed Morano

Human beings cannot live without stories.

— Ann Douglas

The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.

— Li-Young Lee

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

— Peter Greenaway

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

— Johann Lamont

We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.

— Stephen Jay Gould

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

— Alec Soth

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

— Simon McBurney

As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.

— Jack Driscoll

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

— Guillermo del Toro

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

— John Howe

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

— Jerome Bruner

I'm not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. There's good storytelling in all…

— Angela Bettis

“Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.”

— Sharon Salzberg

The thing that's interesting about storytelling is people will say, "How do I write a movie I can get sold in this…

— Joan Tewkesbury

I am the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a Boston-based studio that's an industry leader in making games for women. We…

— Brianna Wu

“Writing controlled fiction is called "plotting." Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however...that is called "storytelling." Storytelling is as…

— Stephen King

I look for really great characters. I say great because as long as they're really good, there's something you can do. And…

— Matt Dillon

“The lesson here is that it’s wise to build your concept from a universal story – a myth, fairy tale, historical event,…

— Anonymous

I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually…

— Tamzin Merchant

“Others with names like myths, names like puzzles, names we had never heard before: Virgilio, Balamugunthan, Faheem, Abdulrahman, Aziz, Baako, Dae-Hyun, Ousmane,…

— NoViolet Bulawayo

I want to do a stripped-down album. That style is actually where my heart is - storytelling and just letting the voice…

— Lykke Li

“Think about the word destroy. Do you know what it is? De-story. Destroy. Destory. You see. And restore. That's re-story. Do you…

— Francesca Lia Block

Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“When you've got a thing to say, Say it! Don't take half a day. When your tale's got little in it Crowd…

— Joel Chandler Harris

One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand.…

— Jeannette Walls

It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other…

— Rowan Atkinson

“Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had…

— Howard Kerr

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

— Kelly Lynch

Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.

— Jay Duplass

The Tories should treat working families with more respect.

— Angela Rayner

I think there is something bigger in store for me.

— Terrell Owens

The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.

— Dejan Stojanovic

No one is too old for fairy tales.

— Anonymous

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

— Jostein Gaarder

“Fairy tales were stupid. And dangerous.”

— Melody Mayer