Storytelling Quotes · Page 49

“I loved my friend for believing, for not saying I was mad, for accompanying me as I moved to and fro over…

— Jessie Burton

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

— Isabel Allende

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

— Morgan Spurlock

The Tories wanted to get rid of fuel poverty targets. I stopped them.

— Ed Davey

“I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.”

— Pat Conroy

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

— Hanna Rosin

I love narrative videos, but sometimes I think they can limit a listener's experience of a song.

— Aubrie Sellers

It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit.

— Tom Herman

Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by…

— Mark Ravenhill

Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and…

— Charles Sturridge

People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information…

— Jonah Berger

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid…

— Stephen King

It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve.…

— Barry Ritholtz

I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers.

— Martine Syms

I love an action sequence that's not just purely about the rollercoaster of it, but a sequence that allows the storytelling to…

— Gareth Evans

Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with…

— Larry Brooks

“Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of…

— Jean Baudrillard

A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I actually really liked 'The Help.' I know that may not be a popular thing, but I thought it was a solid…

— Lena Waithe

Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and…

— Andy Behrman

“Stories are how we make sense of our lives. To tell a story is to own it: to own the narrative thread…

— Deborah Copaken Kogan

One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we…

— Mario Bunge

The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me wat I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of…

— Midori Snyder

I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

— Edith Hamilton

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

— Jill Soloway

We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

— Christine Downing

“Fairy tales are make believe and reality sucks, but I happen to live in both worlds.”

— Emily Hodson

“In our distant future, a tale of things past... (from Mars Rising)”

— Mark David Major

“myths and mistruths get thrown around so often they eventually feel familiar and start to sound like the truth.”

— Gary Keller

I think that On is one of the greatest brands in terms of storytelling.

— Ben Shelton

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

— Charlotte Mason

Richie' will show a very unique style of storytelling to the audiences.

— Shraddha Srinath

People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

— James Lapine

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.

— LeVar Burton

I think there is a lot of technology that is finding its way into our storytelling - it's pretty unavoidable.

— Betty Gabriel

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

— Jacqueline Carey

Part of George R.R. Martin's brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.

— Harry Lloyd

“Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.”

— Charles Ray