Storytelling Quotes · Page 19

The medium is secondary to the stories.

— Cillian Murphy

“you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future”

— Danielle Steel

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

— George Armstrong Custer

If Danny Murphy wants to suck up to Tories that's up to him.

— Paul Mullin

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

— Sidney Sheldon

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

— Amy Klobuchar

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

— Gelett Burgess

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

— Robert Olen Butler

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

— Jeff Bridges

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

— F. Sionil Jose

“...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.”

— Simon Van Booy

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to…

— William Monahan

Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood.

— Alfred Rosenberg

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

— Charles Haughey

“Conflict drives the narrative and creates opportunities for personal growth, change, and transformation.”

— Calvin Niles

There are plenty of myths out there that are either really expensive to do or incredibly difficult or complicated to execute.

— Grant Imahara

I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are…

— Haruki Murakami

My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things…

— Lena Waithe

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want…

— Kevin Spacey

Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature…

— John Hodgman

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and…

— George Ade

“People want to do business with you because of 'who you are' and 'what you stand for'... not because of 'what you…

— Anonymous

I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most…

— Jodie Foster

“Never can that be told, for those who saw and lived through it have lost the gift of words and those who…

— Ivo Andrić

Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels…

— Michael Chabon

Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information…

— Keegan-Michael Key

I may love individual people, but I am contemptuous of the arrogance , and in a way, it's both ruined me and…

— Larry Fessenden

“The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the…

— Aristotle

“The television dramas we grew up on, stories of star-crossed lovers, stories of love overcoming all obstacles, well, they’re all fairy tales,…

— Anthony Marra

I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative…

— Sam Keen

How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell…

— Lillian B. Rubin

Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And…

— Karen Armstrong

When gossip grows old it becomes myth.

— Anonymous

If I hadn't told stories, I would've been a historian.

— George C. Wolfe

“Everyone's life is a fairy tale writen by God's fingers”

— llHans Christian Anderson

As soon as I could write, I was writing stories.

— Celeste Ng

“Does the Sower feed the tale Or the tale feed the Sower?”

— Rachna Gilmore

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel

“If you would know this country, you must know its stories.”

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

You are what exists before all stories.

— Byron Katie