Storytelling Quotes

In the beginning was the myth.

— Hermann Hesse

“Stories do not end.”

— anais nin

Life stories are mostly story.

— Mariana Fulger

I love storytelling.

— Anonymous

“Stories never end. We end.”

— Peter S. Beagle

All my jewelry has stories.

— Eva Green

“Hip-hop is storytelling.”

— Raquel Cepeda

Every Hermes scarf has a tale.

— Christina Binkley

“And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.”

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about

— Gay Talese

It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.

— Jack Kerouac

Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.

— Donna J. Haraway

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

— Frank Schaeffer

“You are the master over someone who has told you his story.”

— Robert Repino

I was raised just on Grimm's fairy tales.

— Brett Cooper

Music is our myth of the inner life.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

— Laurence Housman

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

— Robert Creeley

“As so often happens when scientists quarrel, a lay audience is left to choose their preferred fairy tale”

— Richard T Nash

“This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support…

— Walter Kirn

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

— Zadie Smith

All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room.

— Chris Claremont

'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.

— John Tiffany

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent…

— Simon Mainwaring

Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story…

— Roma Downey

“I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my…

— Scott Lynch

'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that…

— James McAvoy

Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you…

— Peter Greenaway

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me.…

— Richard Ray Perez

What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I…

— Debra Hamel

The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it's something that everybody does. Kids mustn't be in…

— Natalie Babbitt

“A writer is a dangerous friend. Everything you say, all of your life and experience, is fodder for our writing. We mean…

— Randy Murray

So I wanted to write a play that put some thoughts and feelings in the air about the miracle and the mystery…

— Will Eno

The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this…

— William Golding

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various…

— Bob Schieffer

“It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to…

— Northrop Frye

Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer…

— Neil Gaiman

I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born,…

— Ethan Hawke