Storytelling Quotes · Page 75

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was…

— Tom Robbins

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

— James Patterson

The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing.

— Justin Peck

Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.

— Ben Barnes

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

— Haruki Murakami

“The quietest ideas often become the loudest stories.” — Christina Collins”

— Christina Collins

We like mature storytelling. We like dramatic storytelling. We like intense storytelling.

— Anthony Russo

“I don't have any stories. All that shit I tell you actually happens. ”

— Kristen Ashley

Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story…

— Roma Downey

'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that…

— James McAvoy

Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you…

— Peter Greenaway

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me.…

— Richard Ray Perez

What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I…

— Debra Hamel

I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will…

— Dean Koontz

“The Dreamer awakes The shadow goes by The tale I have told you, That tale is a lie. But listen to me,…

— Traditional folktale ending

For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it…

— Anonymous

Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow…

— Jack Zipes

“Bound souls. He had always thought the stories of men and women bound throughout all eternity by the strength of passion, either…

— Ann Marston

Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“How did it begin?' Miss Cotton asked. When?' they replied. In the beginning,' Aunt Velma said. Wid tears,' they assured her. Wid…

— Opal Palmer Adisa

True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“One of the most moving narratives of modern history is the story of how men and women languishing under various forms of…

— Terry Eagleton

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a…

— Madeleine L'Engle

While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative…

— Colm Toibin

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

— Robert Fulghum

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

— Lauren Lapkus

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

— Kelley Armstrong

Storytelling has changed. Shows like 'Adventure Time' have taken storytelling in a different direction.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

— E. L. Doctorow

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

— Bill Hader

“Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.”

— Marcus Borg

I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.

— Lucy Walker

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

— Jack Kirby

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

— Walter Scott

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

— Katherine Applegate

We feel a lot of the future of storytelling is going to be in the VR space.

— Joe Russo

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

— Danai Gurira

“She reminded me that I could write stories,/ could be struck by lightning & live.”

— Jen Currin

Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.

— Jesmyn Ward

“We write because we need somewhere for the stories in our heads to live.”

— Dana George