Storytelling Quotes · Page 67

“We can't meaningfully proceed with healing, with restoration, without "re-story-ation".”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

— Richard Branson

Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.

— Anonymous

“Account books form a narrative as engaging as any tale of sea monsters or cannibals.”

— Hilary Mantel

“Where do you think stories come from, E'lir Kvothe? Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

— James McBride

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

— H. P. Lovecraft

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth…

— Karl Abraham

“Narration, after all, isn’t just a literary function. It represents the human capacity to tell stories in such a manner that they…

— Steve Almond

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not…

— Chris Priestley

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

— Saul David

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

— Edward Gibbon

I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his…

— David Anthony Durham

“I bleed words. I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds. I befriend figmental characters. I wish on stars in other…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Social media companies must combine their mastery of the latest in real-time, location based or augmented reality technologies in the service of…

— Simon Mainwaring

A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I actually really liked 'The Help.' I know that may not be a popular thing, but I thought it was a solid…

— Lena Waithe

“Nor, says Nora, do we want commonplace tales of hausfrau Angst, of the woman heroically making over her life with a handsome…

— Kate Atkinson

“Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of…

— Jean Baudrillard

You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do…

— Tom Cruise

Tell a story. You don't have to do a thousand things in two minutes when you can do one just as good…

— Goldust

I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we…

— Lisa Lutz

I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way…

— Malcolm Gladwell

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

— Kiki Smith

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

— V. S. Pritchett

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

— Jim Trelease

I look for stories that are different because that is how I will grow as a performer.

— Vicky Kaushal

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

— Zainab Salbi

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

— George Orwell

“We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality.”

— Danielle Ganek

“Storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are.”

— Carmine Gallo

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

— Andrew Stanton

Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality.

— Billy Graham

Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative.

— Davey Havok

I'm a fan of classic romance films as well as screwball comedies. I think love stories are just compelling narratives.

— Rose Matafeo

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

— Agnes Repplier

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

— Rupert Holmes

Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

— Lawrence Block

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

— Jeff Bridges