Storytelling Quotes · Page 81

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom…

— Catherine Hardwicke

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

— Paul Ricoeur

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

— Sherman Alexie

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

— Holly Near

I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

— Lotte Reiniger

I'm actually quite critical of the storytelling theme. I think all the storytellers are not storytellers.

— Stefan Sagmeister

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food…

— Klaus Kinski

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd…

— Dan Harmon

Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.”

— Niall Ferguson

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with…

— Kit Williams

“... the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy…

— Ann Patchett

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their…

— Milos Forman

There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her…

— Anonymous

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited…

— Michael Schur

“By the time these stories were written, six decades had passed since the crucifixion. In that time, the evangelists had heard just…

— Reza Aslan

“Given the obstacles to merging these fragile and diverse forms of storytelling into a single tale, it is, paradoxically, by venturing in…

— Karl Jacoby

Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“At the heart of his paper was the notion that fairy tales relieved us of our need for order and allowed us…

— Alice Hoffman

“In one Native American folk tale, a grandfather explains to his grandson that he has two wolves inside him. One wolf fills…

— Anonymous

“When you enter the woods of a fairy tale and it is night, the trees tower on either side of the path.…

— Elizabeth J. Andrew

“It is true that the original of this story is put into new words, and the style of the famous lady we…

— Daniel Defoe

Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising…

— David Farland

“May you never grow too old to believe in magic and fairy tales.”

— Misty Dawn Seidel

I think so many women allow themselves to be defined by somebody else's narrative.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

“Sometimes you just have to hold each other’s hands and walk through it all.”

— A.D. Posey

As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom.

— David Farr

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

— Mitch Albom

“There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“This is not your mom’s fairy tale.' From a review of my novel, 'Course of Mirrors.”

— Ashen Venema

“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.”

— Stephen King

“If we stop believe in fairy tales, we kill any hope in reality.”

— Chris Southwave

What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story.

— Wally Pfister

“We testify of what we have experienced and witnessed. May our testimony inspired others to share their story.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

All the Indigenous paintings throughout history, they were always a bird's eye view, it's the Indigenous way of storytelling.

— Aaron Pedersen

I wish I could go back and take my name out of the history books so I would be a myth and…

— Anonymous

It's no secret that many tales of tween stardom have had unhappy endings.

— Chris Connelly

“stories are better than fiction, so let’s hope for some real-life sequels.”

— Katherine Ramsland