Storytelling Quotes · Page 63

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

— William H. Gass

I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.

— Max Lucado

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

— Cary Fukunaga

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

— J. C. Chandor

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

— Alain de Botton

We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it.

— Ruth Ware

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

— Isak Dinesen

When American liberals go to the UK they see the Tories as the Washington Generals, and they see the Labor Party as…

— Rush Limbaugh

What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox…

— Alice Hoffman

The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the…

— Veena Sud

The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually…

— Jesmyn Ward

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better time, consciousness…

— Francis Ford Coppola

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of…

— Rabih Alameddine

“It's the kind of story that people tell. There are monsters in this world, to be sure, but there are a sight…

— Gerald Morris

I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.

— David Crabb

In the shows I've done serialized storytelling with, there are big open questions, but you like every episode to be identifiable as…

— Tim Kring

“I Write books for the little girl in the adult woman who some man told she was not good enough. Let us…

— Crystal Evans

“Among pernicious myths is the one where people always get very upbeat and generous and other-directed right before they eliminate their own…

— David Foster Wallace

“I will tell you a few—each one with a moral!” Sri Yukteswar’s eyes twinkled with his warning. “My mother once tried to…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“We all fictionalize ourselves in the process of creating a story out of the raw materials of our life. For some it…

— Neil McCormick

The thing about storytelling is it's very stripped down; it's very much at the core of 'I'm a person and I'm just…

— Mike Birbiglia

The way that Lucasfilm used ILM was George never restricted his thinking to things that he knew could be executed with the…

— John Knoll

“But in our camp, his story was everyone’s story, a single tale of dispossession, of being stripped to the bones of one’s…

— Susan Abulhawa

“Children need fairy tales because they can see only black and white.”

— Teresa Jordan

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

— Edward Norton

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

— Margaret Atwood

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

— Carlos Castaneda

“Sometimes it is necessary to come up with a myth that people can blame, rather than the cold hand of unfeeling fate.”

— Matthew Mather

Role-playing games are just an organic improvised space for storytelling.

— Matthew Mercer

“We pay attention to what works with our narrative. We tend to dismiss that which does not.”

— Harlan Coben

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

— Eugene O'Neill

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

— Audrey Hepburn

I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

— Kristen Bell

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the…

— January Jones

The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.

— Rod Blackhurst

I mean, television has really changed a lot, and changed the way movie people think about working in the storytelling business.

— Anna Boden

“Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.”

— Gregory Maguire

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

— Sandra Cisneros