Storytelling Quotes · Page 68

“If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell”

— Freeman Wills Croft

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

— Colson Whitehead

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

— Paul Ricoeur

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to…

— William Monahan

“...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.”

— Simon Van Booy

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

— F. Sionil Jose

“Conflict drives the narrative and creates opportunities for personal growth, change, and transformation.”

— Calvin Niles

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

— Charles Haughey

There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people…

— Stellan Skarsgard

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush…

— Anne Carson

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition…

— Rollo May

Some of the storytelling we did in 'Battlestar Galactica,' to graft that onto 'Star Trek,' it would have required changing the entire…

— Ronald D. Moore

“We can be so heavily invested in our tales of sorrow and woe that we have no clue how much repeating that…

— Catherine Carrigan

I've been very passionate about storytelling ever since I was a kid. I really don't remember a time when I didn't want…

— Inbar Lavi

The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

— John F. Kennedy

“...just because one can guess the nature of a tale doesn't make it any less worth the telling. One might even find…

— Sam Westhoek

The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what…

— Joseph Campbell

“The principles of storytelling do not change. Going home. Coming of age. Sin and redemption. The hero. The journey, The power of…

— Chris Dee

The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it's something that everybody does. Kids mustn't be in…

— Natalie Babbitt

“A writer is a dangerous friend. Everything you say, all of your life and experience, is fodder for our writing. We mean…

— Randy Murray

So I wanted to write a play that put some thoughts and feelings in the air about the miracle and the mystery…

— Will Eno

The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this…

— William Golding

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various…

— Bob Schieffer

“It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to…

— Northrop Frye

Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood.

— Alfred Rosenberg

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

— Anonymous

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

— Peter Morgan

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

— Barry Ritholtz

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

— Nancy Dubuc

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

— William Shakespeare

“There was no energy of a narrative in my family, not even the fervour of an elegy.”

— Anne Michaels

There are plenty of myths out there that are either really expensive to do or incredibly difficult or complicated to execute.

— Grant Imahara

I'm extremely into Greek Mythology and know almost everything about the classic Greek myths.

— Jinkx Monsoon

“We all need fairy tales to forget the tragedies and difficulties of life, even for a short time!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

— V. S. Naipaul

There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.

— Komla Dumor

I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages.

— Jim Lee

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

— Edgar Allan Poe

I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.

— Joe Russo

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

— Barry Ritholtz