Storytelling Quotes · Page 42

Every tale is not to be believed.

— Aesop

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.

— John Lasseter

The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia.

— Robert D. McFadden

I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.

— Victoria Gotti

I hate the establishment, the royal family and the Tories.

— Paddy Pimblett

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are so many myths about us.

— Steve Lukather

“I tried to smile but feared I would cry. 'I always wondered what it was like to be shot.' 'Now you've lived…

— Cameron Stracher

The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.

— Morgan Neville

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

— Hilary Mantel

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

— Chris Claremont

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

— Zadie Smith

“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

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

— Robert Creeley

To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to…

— Kevin Wilson

“So that’s why I’m such a big fan of storytelling. I think the most important thing is empathy. And it’s less about…

— Jeanette Walls

“It is a precisely datable historical event having the full weight that real historical happenings have; like them, too, it happens once…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating…

— Eli Clare

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

— Andrew Wyeth

You have to think about storytelling over the long haul: what is going to engage an audience for, potentially, years and how…

— Jeremy Podeswa

Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and…

— Miranda July

“The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means…

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing…

— Irvine Welsh

I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am…

— Jenni Olson

I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where…

— Sarah Stillman

Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built.…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted that is! As though we would…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

From American Idol to The Matrix participatory media - where old and new media converge by involving fans - is influencing our…

— Henry Jenkins

I could write stories just as rotten.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I think to me, all songs are stories.

— Regina Spektor

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

— Chris Vance

“A tale within a tweet can be sweet!! That's a REAL flash.”

— Neil Leckman

“All the best stories in the world were of escape.”

— Elizabeth Joy Arnold

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.

— George Lloyd

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

— Brian Eno

“We all create the stories we need to survive”

— Kameron Hurley