Storytelling Quotes · Page 76

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

For me, it's just always about trying to tell stories that I care about.

— Rachel Morrison

“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, we live our lives based on dead men's tale.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

— Alan Lee

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

— Aaron Sorkin

When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.

— Jamila Woods

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

— Scott Turow

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

— Pamela Yates

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different…

— Allison Mack

“But history has been adapted here, re-spun to tell Jan's tale: the story of a boy caught up in a world of…

— Joanne Owen

The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your…

— Jonathan Lethem

I think the cinema-going public are smart enough to separate fiction from reality but suspend their disbelief for long enough to be…

— Adam Pearson

There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to…

— Mandy Moore

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a…

— Maura Tierney

The Tories have been offering us a cocktail of incompetence and malice and Labour haven't done anything to draw attention to it.…

— Frankie Boyle

“The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means…

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

“Simon?” “Yeah?” “Can you tell me a story?” He blinked. “What kind of story?” “Something where the good guys win and the…

— Cassandra Clare

“But certainly the two best-known tales in the neighborhood - the key hauntings, if you will - concern the Red Room and…

— Jonathan Stroud

There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them.…

— Arthur Machen

“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I…

— Andy Serkis

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who…

— Isak Dinesen

“We can never stop searching for Heaven, since there is always more of it than we can see. There, as in those…

— Patricia Storace

“The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.”

— Catherine Robinson-Walker

“Words made you laugh and history fell apart into tales and isolated mysteries threatening to be trivial.”

— Joseph McElroy

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters

— Francesca Lia Block

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

— Piers Anthony

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

— Jeff Bridges

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

— Randall Wallace

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

— Rhys Ifans

I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.

— Cole Sprouse

I think that 'Vinyl''s faster-paced. I think 'Boardwalk' was much more luxurious in its storytelling.

— Terence Winter

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

— Michael Shermer

“Storytelling is a great gift because humanity is a great gift, something God himself delights in.”

— Mike Cosper

“Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.”

— Cathleen Falsani

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

— Norman Macleod

“Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan