Storytelling Quotes · Page 86

I'd love to do something like 'A Canterbury Tale,' because I love the English language.

— Martin McDonagh

Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

— Kate Forsyth

“so eager for a fairy tale, you create one where it doesn’t exist.”

— J.A. Huss

I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.

— Travis Kalanick

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

— Gilbert Ryle

“I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.”

— Sara Sheridan

I think you always win in storytelling when you let the best creative ideas guide you.

— Peter Billingsley

“Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.”

— Johann Schiller

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art…

— Muriel Spark

Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything…

— Trina Schart Hyman

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is…

— Harriet Lerner

“In my experience, involvement in fairy tales is unavoidable no matter who you are, no matter how many fairy tales you’ve lived…

— Kendra E. Ardnek

One of the very first ghost stories I read - and that was in a forest rest house, where it is a…

— Ruskin Bond

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if…

— Meg Cabot

“Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter…

— Isabel Greenberg

“We had been locked lives. Neither life would dare confront us nor tales could be turned into hard facts. We were not…

— T. Afsin Ilgar

“All she captures is a moment and what she calls it is a memory, Sometimes, it is assumptions that we use; all…

— Nishikant

“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently…

— Erik Pevernagie

As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine…

— Wanda Coleman

“The pleasures of being a novelist are many.  But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving…

— Richard Linklater

“I’ve never believed in fairy tales. One day, the fairies will tell this story. There will be a valiant prince, a part…

— T.T. Escurel

When a character has as wide an audience and as rich a history as Batman, it's truly exciting to see him introduced…

— Jim Lee

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story…

— Doris Lessing

“But I had to dream. I had to hope. Even if it made me the fool of this particular tale.”

— C. Robert Cargill

Its not about the ones who tell the stories its about those who pass them on.

— Karen Loomis

“I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring…

— Karen Hines

“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any”

— Yuval Noah Harari

That's what storytelling is. It's excising the demons and taking a look at the hard subjects.

— Kari Skogland

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

— Stacy Schiff

Obviously I have propagated the occasional myth about myself, because the real me, I'm not worth knowing.

— Keith Allen

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

— Beverly Cleary

“Myths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks.”

— S.M. Stirling

I think the myth about the 'silent generation' is just that, a myth.

— David Dellinger

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

— Mike Figgis

“We're all storytellers. We choose to tell ourselves the kind of tale we want to hear.”

— Danielle Ganek

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

— Anonymous

I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one.

— Juan Pablo Escobar

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

— Libby Larsen