Storytelling Quotes · Page 74

Any question about narrative storytelling is answered by Dickens.

— Steven Knight

“ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.”

— FILM CRIT HULK

Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

— Rollo May

“Not every tale has a happy ending. In fact, many of them are grim.”

— Chanda Hahn

I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.

— Abby Huntsman

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

— Neil MacGregor

“Fairy tales are best read as entertainment,” Harry said. “Not as a guide to life.”

— Lisa Kleypas

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child.…

— Kate Atkinson

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz…

— Haruki Murakami

Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and…

— Marcus Sedgwick

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

— John Milton

The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched…

— Juliet Marillier

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent…

— Simon Mainwaring

“I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my…

— Scott Lynch

I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where…

— Sarah Stillman

Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built.…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am…

— Jenni Olson

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing…

— Irvine Welsh

“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a…

— Ray Bradbury

I think we need to make documentaries about fantasy and storytelling. I think I just started to scratch the surface of a…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering,…

— Tom Hanks

“I’ve always had a vivid imagination in terms of storytelling, but thankfully I learned early on that imagination can be stifled or…

— Marvin Brown

“No one wants to sit through a drawn-out tale any more than they want a third nipple”

— Andrew Cormier

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

— Derren Brown

In my store, I don't do anything political. There are no signs up, and I'm not pushing anyone.

— Rick Harrison

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

— Fatih Ak?n

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

— Don Henley

I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own.

— Chath Piersath

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

— Alexander Chee

My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.

— Anne Reid

Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

— Karen Thompson Walker

“No matter how shitty things are, you can always get a song out of it.”

— Grant Morrison

I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

— Sandra Cisneros

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

— Christina Baldwin

I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.

— Anonymous

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.

— Jesse Williams

People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.

— Clint Smith

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn..

— Shannon Hale