Storytelling Quotes · Page 65

I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.

— Lucy Walker

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

— Jack Kirby

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

— Walter Scott

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

— Katherine Applegate

We feel a lot of the future of storytelling is going to be in the VR space.

— Joe Russo

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

— Danai Gurira

“She reminded me that I could write stories,/ could be struck by lightning & live.”

— Jen Currin

Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.

— Jesmyn Ward

The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like…

— Marilynne Robinson

I hope I succeed in demonstrating that you may equally find compelling and significant narratives - stories that alter or add to…

— Michael Portillo

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies…

— Anais Nin

“There is nothing that is not both narrative and language. Even the paradoxical physics by which the universe is held together is…

— Katharine Haake

In the end, it's about the reality. You want something that's believable in the performances; you want something that's believable in the…

— Matt Czuchry

The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A…

— James M. Kouzes

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture…

— Howard Shore

“It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad…

— J.M. Coetzee

The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literatureis totally lacking in any working method to enable it to…

— Italo Calvino

“I know that every interpretation of a myth impoverishes and suffocates it; with myths, it’s better not to rush things, better to…

— Italo Calvino

There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is…

— Neil Gaiman

This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks…

— Roger Ebert

If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to…

— Cate Blanchett

Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that…

— John Logan

A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the…

— Cynthia Ozick

“We have seen that a myth could never approached in a purely profane setting. It was only comprehensible in a liturgical context…

— Karen Armstrong

“We write because we need somewhere for the stories in our heads to live.”

— Dana George

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

— Frank Darabont

“I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in…

— Laini Taylor

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

— Abraham Verghese

“Stories often project the best that humanity has to offer. If only we could live up to our stories.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.

— Rhea Seehorn

“ My Cuddle Time Bible Story Book Sleeping with Jesus Baby Bibles: Tall Tales for Tiny tots Everybody Poops (Except God)”

— Dave Eggers

Two things make a story. The net and the air that falls through the net.

— Pablo Neruda

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

— Michael Shermer

“The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.”

— Lara Biyuts

I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.

— Ira Glass

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.

— Phoebe Stone

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

— Margaret Atwood

Having spent a lot of time on sets, I was really interested in the overall storytelling aspect of shows and projects.

— Tom Verica

“Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

— Marina Tsvetaeva