Storytelling Quotes · Page 89

“Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.”

— Ashley Madau

Someone once told there's nothing wrong with fairy tales everyone ends up happily ever after in the end.

— Peyton Sawyer

“I hide away in my room to see Just what stories will come to me.”

— P.B. McIlrath

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

— Neil Gaiman

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

— Gilbert Ryle

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

— Regina Spektor

There is a narrative of 'Washington fighting' because it's interesting and it's drama.

— Katie Hill

If I'm doing a daily soap I would like my character to drive the narrative.

— Rupali Ganguly

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became…

— Andrew Wyeth

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real…

— Chris Robinson

I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods…

— Michael Boatman

“Such a narrative as this demands some sort of physical consolation for its spiritual tribulation. Our heroine received it in one last…

— Emily C.A. Snyder

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people…

— Serge Schmemann

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the…

— Denis Johnston

If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and…

— Greg Bryk

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves…

— Chris Abani

“These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the…

— John Connolly

I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could…

— Richard LaGravenese

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world…

— Terri Windling

“I did not make myself the heroine of my tales. Life appeared to me too common-place an affair as regarded myself. I…

— Mary Shelley

“So they went out for a walk. They went through narrow, lightless lanes, where houses that were silent but gave out smells…

— Amit Chaudhuri

I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of…

— Giles Andreae

When you tell a story, there are imperatives of structure, of style, of pacing and all of this, that are there simply…

— H. W. Brands

I want to be around people that are just as enthusiastic about the process and storytelling as I am.

— John David Washington

Marvel's storytelling is much wilder than 'The OA's,' but no one talks about that.

— Zal Batmanglij

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

— Daniel Kahneman

I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.

— David Cage

My life is a tale you are my faire I need you plzzz come and rescue me…

— Rohit

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

— Diodorus Siculus

We're big fans of balance in storytelling, and we like movies that hit every emotion.

— Anthony Russo

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

— Anne Waldman

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

— Massimiliano Gioni

As for the heart It needs a beginning The narrative Burden of events

— Fady Joudah

The truth is the Tories don't own Brexit. No party owns Brexit and that includes the Brexit Party.

— Claire Fox

“All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.”

— Margaret Atwood

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

— Kate Forsyth

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

— Tom Petty

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

— Frank Herbert

I think what happens normally in a narrative film is that the camera constructs the reality.

— Sam Seder