Storytelling Quotes · Page 72

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

— Jerome Bruner

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

— Harold Bloom

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

— Jim Crace

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

— Michael Bergin

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

— Neil Gaiman

The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.

— Parker Posey

“Life has no fairy-tale endings. But it has fairy tale moments.”

— Tracy Winegar

“Mama always did tell a good story, built a solid background, then deftly lead her engrossed listener through a series of doorways,…

— Wendy Jean

“The Bible-as-narrative takes precedence over our attempts to express Christian belief in propositional or abstract terms, which is to say the stories…

— Sarah Arthur

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in…

— Sergio Leone

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

— Geoff Hoon

Even if I made pornography, the trauma would show, though. It will always be there because it's my verité. It's my kind…

— Lav Diaz

This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure…

— Joseph Campbell

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he…

— Patti Davis

“And I knew only what all men know, that the cycle of winter and spring and all growing things has within itself…

— Anne Rice

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If…

— Walter Mosley

We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by…

— May Sarton

What serialized cable dramas have given us is the opportunity to not simply tell the same story with slightly different words and…

— Sarah Wayne Callies

I like being in real environments. I love being in the place that it's about - these sets and locations are characters…

— Antoine Fuqua

“Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children. Every time I’m in a mess I expect a long-haired posh-speaking man…

— Cecelia Ahern

“Bob had been caught by the white death, the threat of which hung over every male black in the South. I had…

— Richard Wright

“Everything that happens to us, everything that we say or hear, everything that we see with our own eyes or we articulate…

— Javier Marías

The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the…

— Joseph Campbell

“Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

My mother used 'Cinderella' as the antidote of what was in store for me.

— Catherine Oxenberg

“Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.”

— Amit Kalantri

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

— Lauren Beukes

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

— Michael Scott

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

— William Zinsser

“what was myth in one world might always be fact in some other.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Would you believe in a story without the heroes? There are stories without heroes.”

— Pushpa Rana

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

— Christina Baldwin

... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

— Shannon Hale

There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.

— Susanne Wuest

That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.

— John Grant

“I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all .

— Julie Kagawa

If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.

— Vince Gilligan

It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real…

— Soman Chainani