Storytelling Quotes · Page 69

“...empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011).”

— Mikkel Wallentin Arndis Simonsen Andreas Hojlund Nielsen

Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.

— Stellan Skarsgard

A narrative of fear surrounds the issue of climate change, and it's being used to completely alter our way of life.

— Leslyn Lewis

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

— Karen O

“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in…

— Will Blythe

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of…

— Michael Ondaatje

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

— Margaret Atwood

Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.

— Richelle Mead

Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that…

— Arlene Goldbard

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some…

— Edwidge Danticat

I like to think that storytelling is something that can always bring success, if you tell it in the right way and…

— Noah Kahan

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations…

— Ava DuVernay

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

— Alex Gibney

Thanks to the proliferation of information being consumed on mobile devices and the Internet, management changed 'SportsCenter' from being a show where…

— Rich Eisen

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the…

— Rick Perlstein

I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to…

— Rhea Seehorn

I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born,…

— Ethan Hawke

Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer…

— Neil Gaiman

“Her earnestness and apparent belief of what she narrated, excited the interest even of Aubrey; and often, as she told him the…

— John William Polidori

“Friedan demystified the fairy tale and traced it back to its roots. She named the unnamed problem. She told women they weren’t…

— Carina Chocano

“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most…

— Hypathia of Alexandria

What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up…

— Kelly Link

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological…

— A. S. Byatt

“The tales that white people tell you of their Native servants are conceived in the same spirit. If they had been told…

— Isak Dinesen

Whether I'm at the gas station or I be at the store, I be there by myself. I be regular.

— Lil Baby

Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work - that's Prince to me.

— The Weeknd

Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that - a myth.

— Barry Gardiner

“He read? Oh my God, guys that read were like unicorns. They only existed in fairy tales.”

— J. Lynn

I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear.

— Nicola Sturgeon

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are…

— Irwin Edman

I don't need to tell stories about how I prepare or manage myself.

— Derek Carr

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

— Guillermo del Toro

I am a woman, and sometimes that impacts what stories I want to do.

— Rachel Maddow

I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous.

— Gillian Flynn

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

We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

— Margaret Haddix