Storytelling Quotes · Page 73

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with…

— Neil Gaiman

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

— Nick Cave

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

— Jonathan Hickman

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

— Sondre Lerche

With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling.

— Nick Nolte

“No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.”

— Mark Twain

A friend knows all of your best stories but a sister has been through all of them with you...

— Anonymous

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

— Delia Sherman

“Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or…

— Peggy Herring

“Stories matter. They shape our lives, expectations, and dreams. They are the warp and weave of our human existence, binding us into…

— Bascomb James

Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It…

— Ken Hom

I'm a lover of film and storytelling. I believe that I was put on earth to tell stories, and I'm not interested…

— Justin Simien

As filmmakers, we love ambitious storytelling; it's one of the reasons we pushed to do 'Civil War.' We want to be as…

— Joe Russo

“A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is…

— Karen Armstrong

I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the…

— Toni Jerrman

I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers…

— Edmund White

“The story about Bessie Goldberg that I heard from my parents was that a nice old lady had been killed down the…

— Sebastian Junger

“. . .because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones that rose from the dark earth and…

— Lisel Mueller

“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human…

— Oliver Sacks

Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted that is! As though we would…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

From American Idol to The Matrix participatory media - where old and new media converge by involving fans - is influencing our…

— Henry Jenkins

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

— James Genn

“For every culture-hero living out his myth, there must be a witness willing to pass the story on. Then”

— Michael Muhammad Knight

As a kid, I loved storytelling, and I liked the way rappers would paint pictures.

— Jensen Karp

A successful magazine has to build a myth its readers can believe in.

— Anonymous

“In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great informing myth, familiarity equaled timelessness”

— David Foster Wallace

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

— Brandon Sanderson

Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally…

— Michel Ocelot

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

— Edmond de Goncourt

“Stories don't always have to end happily.. Sometimes it's just enough that they end.”

— Terri Cheney

“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.”

— Daikichi Irokawa

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

— Sarah Dessen

We all have different narratives; all of our narratives are at different stages of development.

— Viola Davis

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

— Steven Spielberg

“Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.”

— Lloyd Jones

There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.

— Malachi Kirby