Storytelling Quotes · Page 50

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

For me, it's just always about trying to tell stories that I care about.

— Rachel Morrison

“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, we live our lives based on dead men's tale.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

— Alan Lee

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

— Aaron Sorkin

When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.

— Jamila Woods

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

— Scott Turow

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

— Bill Hader

The L Word reaffirmed that good storytelling has a way of creating community. Fans everywhere have been connecting with each other online,…

— Jennifer Beals

My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know…

— John Boyega

In an age where television is viewed as the best medium to 'tell stories,' narrative often stands in for substance on would-be…

— Michelle Dean

I just always loved the storytelling aspect. Even with the production that's happening right now in music, I still think the core…

— Cassadee Pope

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

If you look at photojournalism, it's largely driven by current events... always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that…

— Edward Burtynsky

There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to…

— Emma Donoghue

As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our…

— Helen Fisher

“My sister could really tell some tales on me. She knows things about me that my parents don’t know. This went against…

— The writers of Encouraging.com

There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a…

— Jerry Pinkney

Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story…

— Joseph Campbell

Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it,…

— Caleb Deschanel

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become…

— Karen Armstrong

The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these…

— David Eagleman

“When we speak with others about our experience in Christ, it sharpens our attentiveness to the voice and will of the Father.…

— Stephen A. Macchia

“That is a complicated matter. The heart of the tale and the ideas behind it are simple. Time has altered and condensed…

— Erin Morgenstern

“Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.”

— Marcus Borg

I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.

— Lucy Walker

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

— Jack Kirby

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

— Walter Scott

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

— Katherine Applegate

We feel a lot of the future of storytelling is going to be in the VR space.

— Joe Russo

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

— Danai Gurira

“She reminded me that I could write stories,/ could be struck by lightning & live.”

— Jen Currin

“We write because we need somewhere for the stories in our heads to live.”

— Dana George

Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.

— Jesmyn Ward

The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing.

— Justin Peck

Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.

— Ben Barnes

“The quietest ideas often become the loudest stories.” — Christina Collins”

— Christina Collins

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

— Haruki Murakami

We like mature storytelling. We like dramatic storytelling. We like intense storytelling.

— Anthony Russo

“I don't have any stories. All that shit I tell you actually happens. ”

— Kristen Ashley