Storytelling Quotes · Page 80

“In spite of life's unpredictable, callous ways, I still believe in fairy tales.”

— Terry a O'Neal

Mama never thought I was bad kid But I got a lot of tales for the grandkids

— 100s

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

— Dennis Potter

“Don’t satisfy your thirst by drinking stories from others. Write your own story to feel more thirst.”

— Debasish Mridha

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

— Helena Bonham Carter

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

— Ashwin Sanghi

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

— Sam Lipsyte

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.

— Lynn Nottage

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally…

— Karyn Kusama

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about…

— Ben Wheatley

Virtual reality's been around for 40 years. People have been talking about storytelling in that world for all these years, and there…

— Edwin Catmull

“Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.”

— Ryan Lilly

I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of…

— Jeff Kinney

I get very excited by these hoity-toity directors with their bells and whistles, but I find simple storytelling done really well just…

— Kathy Burke

“It feels as honest as the day is crummy that I begin this tale of total desperation and woe with me, my…

— James Patterson

“Fairy tales are full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer. Good girls. Obedient girls. Girls who crush nettles until their…

— Holly Black

It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding…

— Dennis Green

2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic…

— Ben Shapiro

You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children…

— Adrien Brody

The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when…

— Paul Di Filippo

Really, for me, it's important to know who's pitching and who's catching - just what that scene is supposed to accomplish in…

— Susan Sarandon

One of the things about being on Twitter, for me, is mostly about just being on the pulse of what people are…

— Ashton Kutcher

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of…

— Bertrand Russell

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not…

— Northrop Frye

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

— Erin Morgenstern

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

— Tom Brokaw

What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

— Joseph Campbell

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

— Jim Rash

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

— Ted Hughes

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

— Scott Eastwood

What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.

— Chinweizu Ibekwe

“Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!”

— Varsha Dixit

“[...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...]”

— Terry Pratchett

“Some things die after they born, others born after they die. myths are public dreams, dreams are privet myths...”

— Joseph Campbell

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

— Gregory Peck

“Fairy tales die hard in the minds and hearts of some girls. Quinn”

— Beth Harbison

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

— Ransom Riggs

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson