Storytelling Quotes · Page 82

“When we are young, we are read fairy tales. When we are old, we are read religious tales.”

— Saad Ireland

I think I have a story to tell to inspire people - and for me that's what 'Life Stories' is all about.

— Kerry Katona

“I don't know these stories as well as they know me, I've discovered.”

— Joan Gould

Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.

— Harry Lloyd

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

— Greg Kinnear

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the…

— Robbie Kay

“I had been brought up to believe that you never told tales, and that you should fight your own battles”

— Anonymous

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

— William Irwin Thompson

“A stranger lies behind my eyes, I know not what he wants; sells me dreams, tells me tales, and with the truth,…

— Akash Mandal

First of all, there is absolutely an order that we have put together to create the maximum number of surprises, but that's…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the…

— Gregory Maguire

I look at the feature films that come out, and by and large, 85 percent of them are things I wouldn't in…

— Terence Winter

“We, for our own part, simply call ourselves "we." "We" are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of…

— Salman Rushdie

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy…

— Angelina Jolie

When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment…

— Dermot Healy

“The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas…

— Henry James

“I think that's the way people absorb television. All the explanations in Doctor Who are there if that's your bag, but they're…

— Steven Moffat

“Being the reader of a dark fairy tale is much like being the hero of one. Our lives are filled with pain,…

— Adam Gidwitz

“It was hard to fall in love with the Storyteller, you know? Because, whatever you do and whoever you are, you know…

— Andrea Tomić

“I cannot bring myself to even idly wish any of it—not even the most painful parts—away. Eighteen years. Change even one moment,…

— Dani Shapiro

Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis…

— Carol Birch

Look at the people who are coming to television Ridley Scott, Ang Lee or Guillermo del Toro - all these great filmmakers…

— Ron Perlman

I want the camerawork to fit the narrative and tell the story from the point of view of the character, but sometimes,…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“Myth is mecessary because reality is so much larger than rationality.”

— Rolland Hein

Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk.

— Rhys Ifans

“You can't change destinies already written, that only happens in fairy tales.”

— Katie McGarry

My family is my little village. I really do feel like my fairy tale came true.

— Molly Sims

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

— David Christian

I filmed my first narrative feature in 2006, a story set in Rwanda called 'Munyurangabo.'

— Lee Isaac Chung

“I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.”

— Arthur Kornberg

As much as I love storytelling, I've always been drawn to talent.

— Marc Platt

“The thing about fairy tales was having faith in the things that don't come true, and appreciating them when they do.”

— Shey Stahl

Robert Bolt's storytelling is the kind that I grew up with and aspired to.

— Peter Morgan

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

— Jodi Picoult

We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

— Yahoo Serious

I think the more honest you are with the storytelling, the better it works.

— Fede Alvarez

“There is not a trace of blood anywhere except here, in my throat, where I am telling you all this.”

— Lê Thi Diem Thúy

Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.

— Carmen Naranjo

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

— Bruce Springsteen