Storytelling Quotes · Page 56

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

— Alan Watts

Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.”

— Javier Cercas

“The sheer volume of bad news had gotten beyond anybody’s ability to process into a narrative.”

— Charlie Jane Anders

In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.

— Samuel R. Delany

Every time the Tories are in government, our democracy takes a battering.

— Clive Lewis

“Dominance is not a state of being, but a continuous act of narrative architecture.”

— Kangoma Kindembo

“First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.”

— Amit Kalantri

It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with…

— Russell Smith

My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers…

— Stephen King

For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend,…

— Jacqueline Carey

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply…

— David Mamet

Mani Ratnam was a favourite filmmaker because he did mainstream storytelling but always had a very real context or political backdrop.

— Kabir Khan

“A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Each piece of trash that floated here seems to have brought a story with it across the sea, because anything that's been…

— Wu Ming-Yi

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money…

— Salman Rushdie

“A man is made of memories. It is all we are. Captured moments, the smell of a place, scenes played out time…

— Mark Lawrence

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real…

— Beau Willimon

There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like…

— Kiefer Sutherland

Good storytelling doesn't have to be in the form of the classics. It doesn't have to be revered by everybody. In fact,…

— Bryan Cranston

Growing up, I was constantly reminded to not to air our family's dirty laundry. Part of why domestic violence is allowed to…

— Kambri Crews

With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and…

— Kevin Macdonald

When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and…

— Jonathan Nolan

“Everyone tells a story about who they are in their own head. That story defines you, dictating all your actions and all…

— Mia Sheridan

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

— Ted Lange

“you cannot organise masses of people effectively without relying on some fictional myths.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

— Bryan Fuller

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind…

— Lucile Hadzihalilovic

“Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.”

— Bryant McGill

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“we are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.”

— Alasdair MacIntyre

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

— David Simon

I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing…

— Amanda McBroom

“We need to interrupt any stories that are not in alignment with what we're doing.”

— Elena Aguilar

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“you have to be careful with the stories you tell. And you have to watch out for the stories that you are…

— Thomas King

I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

— David Mamet

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

— Mitch Albom

If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

— Sophocles