Storytelling Quotes · Page 60

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

— Octavio Paz

The Masters isn't about Jim Nantz and his storytelling. It's about golf's greatest tournament.

— Jim Nantz

As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'

— Kate Forsyth

Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.

— Gabrielle Roth

“Sometimes life asks us to make more serious choices than whether or not to believe a fairy tale”

— Chrystal Vaughan

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

— Neil Jordan

Fairy tales are more than true, not because the evil people exist, but because they can never win.

— Anonymous

“Tell me half a cup’s worth of story and we’ll call it a night.”

— Kelley Armstrong

I have always admired the Russian cinema, their incisive storytelling, sharp camera work and brilliant acting in them. Indian filmmakers can learn…

— Victor Banerjee

The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is…

— Kerry Bishe

Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who…

— Ginger Rogers

I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have,…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

“All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales…

— Ramsey Isler

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all…

— Henry Louis Gates

It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context…

— Ken Loach

So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success…

— Joe Wright

“From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and…

— J. Don Cook

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a…

— John Green

“There is no narrative now, no “And then,” only a disjointed series of images. A pile of photographs I’ve flipped through so…

— Kat Rosenfield

“The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. It’s where…

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

“Z ipes’s concerns overlap with those of feminists such as Marcia Lieberman, Karen Rowe, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, and, to a lesser…

— Anonymous

Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just…

— Richard Linklater

The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style…

— Fred Ritchin

I really just believe in good storytelling, and we shouldn't have to sacrifice that just because we're a comedy.

— Quinta Brunson

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

— Gary Gygax

“Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.”

— Sanhita Baruah

I love watching people tell stories, because it's very vulnerable.

— Lauren Lapkus

The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie.

— Simon Kinberg

“Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“In the silence between cultures, I found my voice—not as one or the other, but as both and neither, a bridge between…

— Camellia Yang

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

— Paulo Coelho

Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

— Anonymous

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

— Robert Anton Wilson

I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories.

— Eliza Hittman

“Just because you are married don't believe your fairy tale is complete.”

— Francesca Castagnoli

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

— Chip Esten

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

— Harvey Cox

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.

— Marshall Ganz