Storytelling Quotes · Page 45

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

— Robert Cormier

With any movie at all the challenge lies in the storytelling.

— James Newton Howard

“There's a spiritual connection between flame and narrative.”

— Doug Dorst

“I am pretty sure the myth of me Is better than the reality.”

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

— Richard Denney

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

— Carmen Laforet

“She tells so many different stories and they are all false.”

— Iris Murdoch

“She has to be written out of history and written into myth.”

— Hal Duncan

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

— Robert Briffault

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

— Armistead Maupin

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

— Rachel Weisz

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

— Casey Kasem

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.

— Winston Duke

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

I do Google myself. Not that often, though, and the stories are always rubbish.

— Kelly Brook

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust…

— Neil Gaiman

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way…

— Frances Stark

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to…

— Patricia A. McKillip

I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel.

— Cliff Chiang

“Tell me tales of inconceivable fear and unimaginable love, in orbs whereto our sun is a nameless star, or unto which its…

— Clark Ashton Smith

“Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Suspension of disbelief is a necessary ingredient in all storytelling. So it has been with the government's narrative that it is delivering…

— Jo Johnson

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

— Clive James

“Different narrative forms naturally lend themselves to different aspects of existence. The novel is ideal for presenting the inner lives of its…

— Todd Alcott

I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne…

— Samantha Shannon

Storytelling is a universal: every culture does it. There's a reason our religious books aren't simply a list of shall-and-shall-nots. Morals and…

— Kameron Hurley

“Storyteller's Creed: I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful…

— Robert Fulghum

At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a…

— Julia Bacha

“The creation myths of the various peoples and religions of the world pale when compared to the glory of the big band.…

— Cixin Liu

I have not chosen to create a linear story, but a series of different narratives: in the end there are five plays…

— Mark Ravenhill

A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires…

— Robert McKee

Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after.

— Jennifer Aniston

Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.

— John Lithgow

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

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt

“A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.”

— Steve Aylett

“Don't let your stories define you. Define your own stories.”

— Kitty Downer

“We come to life in the middle of stories that are not ours.”

— Paul Elie

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information,

— Ian Mcewan

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

— John Darnielle