Storytelling Quotes · Page 88

I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh.

— Joss Whedon

Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.

— Carrie Donovan

“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.”

— Jacqueline Carey

“They’re based in fact, even if mundanes think they’re myth. Shadowhunters have a saying: all the stories are true.”

— Cassandra Clare

The resilience of narrative storytelling and people's love affair with television is impressive.

— Kevin Reilly

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

— Shane Carruth

Once in awhile, Right in the middle of an ordinary life, Love gives us a fairy tale.

— Anonymous

“History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the…

— Morris West

“And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along…

— Clare Vanderpool

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even…

— Margaret Atwood

It's my passion, that's what I wanna do, it's the end goal, that's what I crave every second of the day is…

— Logan Lerman

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according…

— James Carroll

“Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted…

— James D. Maxon

“This is the end of an epic tale, the story of my coming of age, which, like in the novels of the…

— Muriel Barbery

I feel like with a lot of Madlib's beats, they are made for storytelling. I feel like when I'm working on stuff…

— Freddie Gibbs

A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how…

— Thomas Boswell

“ 'A fine story', said Asterinov … 'Six months in prison, that tale,' said Sergei. 'Was it the witch?', I asked 'I…

— Adam Roberts

“The Bible is the saga of Yahweh and Adam, the prodigal son and his ever gracious heavenly father; humanity in their rebellion…

— Sandra L. Richter

“There are tales that rise like the early sun, breathe, and take on a life of their own. There are ones that…

— Edwin Fontanez

“Their story was nothing like a romantic movie despite the epic crowd scene. Theirs was a tale of clumsy beginnings, quick getaways,…

— Tracy Ewens

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Trial Is Part of the Journey For a moment, think back about your favorite fairy tale. In that story the main character…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic…

— M. Scott Peck

“Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scratching of…

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

— Susan Wiggs

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

— Jimmy Buffett

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of…

— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Telling a tale cannot be like living it, no matter what you say, talking of love cannot be like giving it away……

— Santanu Mishra

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

— Northrop Frye

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

— Vera Nazarian

~Every girl is searching for her Fairy Tale and looking for her Prince Charming <3

— ShannonE

“And how simple, how sublimely familiar was the tale her body told.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

— Rachel Weisz

Once upon a time, Right in the middle of an ordinary life… Love gives you a fairy tale.

— Ryaj Ablando-Catayas

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

— Sandra Dallas

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.

— Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very interested in storytelling and anything that plays with structure.

— Matthew Bourne

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

— Gilbert Murray

“Like most pure fungi narratives, its interpretation and retelling into human terms is uncertain.”

— Orrin Grey

Tale as old as time, tune as old as song. Bittersweet and strange, finding you can change, learning you were wrong.

— Beauty And The Beast