Storytelling Quotes · Page 58

We need new narratives in culture, and to do a better job of showing more diversity.

— Christopher Wylie

I wanted to be cleared up about that Lost Weekend. I've heard enough of the myth. It was frustrating, but I let…

— May Pang

I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.

— Sondra Locke

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.

— Vera Nazarian

“...[G]enuine fairy tales are not stories about miracles, but rather announcements of the miraculous advent of justice.”

— Siegfried Kracauer

“What truly matters isn’t your feelings or even those of your characters—it’s the emotional experience of your audience.”

— Will Raywood

“If you don’t formulate your own narrative, you become a pawn in someone else’s.”

— James Scott, co-founder, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white…

— David Antin

I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't…

— Christopher Priest

We use music, cinematic storytelling and very stylized backgrounds to create mood and atmosphere as 'Samurai Jack' travels an exotic landscape. The…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature:…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

“I see folktales and myths as humankind's first stories. They are a kind of collective dreaming, filled with timeless symbols and images…

— Marianna Mayer

We're constantly striving to bring something new and different to the table, either in the way that we're using the cameras, or…

— Joe Russo

You have to think about storytelling over the long haul: what is going to engage an audience for, potentially, years and how…

— Jeremy Podeswa

Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and…

— Miranda July

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became…

— Andrew Wyeth

“...the video-game form is incompatible with traditional concepts of narrative progression. Stories are about time passing and narrative progression. Games are about…

— Tom Bissell

I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective…

— Damon Lindelof

I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I…

— John C. Reilly

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the…

— Stephen King

Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love…

— L. Frank Baum

“People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more.…

— Charles de Lint

“No wonder that the ghost and goblin stories had a new zest. No wonder that the blood of the more timid grew…

— John Berwick Harwood

“Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.”

— Pradeepa Pandiyan

“I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie,…

— Jack Kerouac

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

— John le Carre

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

— Ted Rall

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

— Rollo May

If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.

— Susanne Bier

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

— Aaron Paul

Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

— Lord Byron

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

— Leo Tolstoy

“There are two kinds of tales: one accurate but not true, the other true but not accurate.”

— Margaret George

“Be an advocate for the people and causes important to you, using the most powerful tool only you have—your personal stories.”

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

Everyone has stories but they don't know how to tell these stories.

— Vivek Agnihotri

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

— Rumi

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling.

— Margaret Atwood

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I…

— John Ridley

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

— Aristotle