Storytelling Quotes · Page 46

“Every myth is based on truth. And the ice hides many things”

— Lia Habel

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

— Russell Banks

“Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.”

— Ken Donaldson

“All that is holding us together [is] stories and compassion.”

— Anne Lamott

We may be all Equally made , But our stories are not the same.

— Arturas Poe

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

— Northrop Frye

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

— Frank Herbert

“My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.”

— David Hewson

I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own.

— Chath Piersath

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

— Kate Morton

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

— Adrienne Rich

“You are far too stolid and unimaginative, Watson, to invent a tale like that.”

— James Lovegrove

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

— Gilbert Ryle

“Most importantly, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be…

— Daniel Kahneman

Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that…

— Arlene Goldbard

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

— Kevin Wilson

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were,…

— Marian Keyes

As a filmmaker, I want to bring some value, some thought in the mind of my audience. When I embark on the…

— Sriram Raghavan

“And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along…

— Clare Vanderpool

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things…

— Ray McKinnon

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the…

— Ali Smith

“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently…

— Erik Pevernagie

The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child?…

— Benjamin Zander

“Myths remind us of the symbolic presence within all the lost-and-found adventures that alone can give life meaning. Losing touch with the…

— Michael Meade

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

I loved ghost stories. I love horror stories. I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually…

— Jane Goldman

Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it…

— Maud Lindsay

“Generally speaking, all true children's stories make promises to their readers. Here you are, they say, unhandy and short, and there is…

— John Goldthwaite

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

— Regina Spektor

“It's what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters.”

— Ali Smith

Technology is like an campfire around which we say our stories

— Rohit Kkkk

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.

— Joseph Campbell

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

— Eric Nam

Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.

— Julio Olalla

“No one asks to be raped,’ he says. ‘It’s just a myth. A lie.”

— Elle Harper

["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling.

— Rob Lowe