Storytelling Quotes · Page 51

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

— Robert Fulghum

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

— Lauren Lapkus

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

— Kelley Armstrong

Storytelling has changed. Shows like 'Adventure Time' have taken storytelling in a different direction.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

— E. L. Doctorow

My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.

— Anne Reid

Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

— Karen Thompson Walker

“No matter how shitty things are, you can always get a song out of it.”

— Grant Morrison

“I must warn you dear reader, that in this story both wonderful and terrible events transpire. It is also the sort of…

— John Mark Green

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any…

— Daniel Handler

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can…

— Anonymous

If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the…

— Jay Baer

“No fairy tale, this. This was by no stretch of the imagination a polished fantasy. This was a searing, living force, rough…

— V.S. Carnes

You know, stories got lost in rap. That is why whenever you hear a rapper do a concept storytelling record, it sticks…

— Benny the Butcher

“The 5-year-old sees that Paradise correctly, not in technology but in the fairy story, in the great myths that control and guide…

— George Sheehan

'Slumdog Millionaire' is a fairy tale, but it starts in a place you really believe, and that came from spending two months…

— Simon Beaufoy

“Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective.…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It…

— Peter Greenaway

Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked…

— Karen Armstrong

I think there's a lot of people going through different things where you feel like your whole world's imploded, and you feel…

— Victoria Arlen

I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing…

— Kevin D. Williamson

Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it…

— Jonathon Keats

“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the…

— Stephen King

It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I…

— Pietra Brettkelly

I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

— Sandra Cisneros

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

— Christina Baldwin

I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.

— Anonymous

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.

— Jesse Williams

People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.

— Clint Smith

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn..

— Shannon Hale

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was…

— Tom Robbins

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

— James Patterson

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

— Neil MacGregor

I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.

— Abby Huntsman

“Fairy tales are best read as entertainment,” Harry said. “Not as a guide to life.”

— Lisa Kleypas

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“No one wants to sit through a drawn-out tale any more than they want a third nipple”

— Andrew Cormier

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

— Derren Brown

In my store, I don't do anything political. There are no signs up, and I'm not pushing anyone.

— Rick Harrison

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

— Don Henley