Storytelling Quotes · Page 59

I'm often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The 'Devil in the White City' was a fluke.

— Erik Larson

“It is no news to me that tales of hidden races are as old as all mankind.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

“We are a people who tell stories, Layla. You will have your own story to tell.”

— Nevien Shaabneh

“They were just stories, but stories weren’t just anything. Simon”

— Rainbow Rowell

The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.

— Steve Lukather

“She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time." An incantation.”

— Jennifer McMahon

A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.

— Margaret Wise Brown

Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

— Tim O'Brien

“Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating…

— Eli Clare

“It is a precisely datable historical event having the full weight that real historical happenings have; like them, too, it happens once…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“So that’s why I’m such a big fan of storytelling. I think the most important thing is empathy. And it’s less about…

— Jeanette Walls

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever…

— Dennis Lehane

Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue…

— Curtis Hanson

So for me, it can be theatre or being in L.A. or in some other part of the world, as long as…

— Dilshad Vadsaria

The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically…

— Martin McGuinness

The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Enchanted castle corridors are the right place to "get in" research on fairy tales - it's a fairy tale, and fairy tales…

— Penina Mezei

“I've been actively engaged with mythic imagery ever since I picked up that Rackham book, but it really came into focus for…

— Brian Froud

“I write for the kid in me. . . . Often when I’m working on a story, I’ll find myself laughing at…

— Elvira Woodruff

With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel,…

— Bob Shacochis

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and…

— Sallust

They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different…

— Salman Rushdie

We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even…

— Robert Rodriguez

“We are each warriors of our own times. When we step out of our protective shell, we each encounter forces much more…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

“Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.”

— Felix Alba-Juez

I don't believe in fairy tales. I believe guys only want one. thing and girls are only in love with the idea…

— Anonymous

I tell stories about the people around me, I tell stories about me. I tell stories about my hood.

— Goldlink

I wish life was like a Fairy Tale and people were always friends, instead of these non-stop disasters that NEVER want to…

— Blondie

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Laced with a unique narrative technique, racy screenplay and top notch production values, 'Lie' is a new cinematic experience.

— Nithiin

I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

— David S. Goyer

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a…

— Peter Stormare

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

— John Boorman

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

— Mohsin Hamid

From the moment Jeff Zucker shared his vision for innovative storytelling at CNN, I wanted to be part of it.

— Alisyn Camerota

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

— Lydia Davis

“good storytelling is good because the characters — not the author — are in charge.”

— Sean Platt

I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.

— Kathleen Edwards

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.

— Philip Gerard