Storytelling Quotes · Page 55

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

— Graydon Carter

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

— Meg Cabot

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

— Joseph Jacobs

I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.

— James Gray

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

— Bryan Brown

That's what we have with the Old Testament and the New Testament: good storytelling.

— Naveen Andrews

There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”

— Calvin Niles

“Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story…

— Joss Whedon

There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation…

— Lynn Nottage

“To know if a tale is worth its weight in gold, check if it reveals threefold. In your bloodstream. In the town…

— Amruta Patil

Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody…

— Michael Dirda

I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can…

— Lauren Mayberry

Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really…

— Tom Verica

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it…

— Thomas Mann

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look…

— Walter Kirn

At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to…

— Umberto Eco

“For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their…

— Jodi Picoult

“Later, when his desires had been satisfied, he slept in an odorous whorehouse, snoring lustily next to an insomniac tart, and dreamed.…

— Salman Rushdie

The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a…

— Anne Fortier

“It was all the answer Rook needed. He plunged his hand into the soil, long fingers grasping down. This was no offering…

— Margaret Rogerson

“For Her Ugliness loved stories full of darkness. She didn't want to be told tales of good fortune and beauty, she liked…

— Cornelia Funke

“People who’ve never read fairy tales, the professor said, have a harder time coping in life than the people who have. They…

— Charles de Lint

“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons…

— Eric Morgenstern

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

— Orson Scott Card

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

— Eldridge Cleaver

“Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down,…

— Chuck Wendig

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

— Carey Mercer

I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

— Alex Turner

The real story of Netflix is complicated: an epic tale full of struggle, disappointment, drama, humor, and achievement.

— Marc Randolph

I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

— Gelett Burgess

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world.”

— Jonathan Auxier

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

— Anonymous

An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.

— Uri Shulevitz

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

— Anonymous

Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.

— Natalie Angier

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

— Konrad Lorenz

“If you are not a myth Whose reality are you? And if you are not reality Whose myth are you?”

— Sun Ra Arkestra