Storytelling Quotes · Page 50

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

— Aristotle

“I’m a novelist,” Ruth said. “I can’t help it. My narrative preferences are all I’ve got.”

— Ruth Ozeki

“Bedtime tales, myths, legends, fairy tales, lie the lessons and examples of what a Goddess would do.”

— Emma Mildon

“You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn”

— Richard Due

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

— Juan Antonio Bayona

I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.

— Garth Greenwell

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

— Amos Oz

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

— Nicholas Royle

“Tales within tales. Dreams within dreams. Pattern on pattern and path beyond path. For such short-lived folks, the human kind seem determined…

— Juliet Marillier

It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a…

— Kelley Armstrong

“Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but…

— Amit Kalantri

As the Tories sit back with their fingers in their ears, we'll continue to offer solutions that show how we will make…

— Rachel Reeves

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling…

— Jennifer Egan

The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic…

— Neil Jordan

The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.

— Lewis Thomas

“The principles of storytelling do not change. Going home. Coming of age. Sin and redemption. The hero. The journey, The power of…

— Chris Dee

The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what…

— Joseph Campbell

Tell a story. You don't have to do a thousand things in two minutes when you can do one just as good…

— Goldust

I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we…

— Lisa Lutz

You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do…

— Tom Cruise

“He fills my head with tales from the ancient forests, tales so old that the trees themselves call them legends. It is…

— Maryrose Wood

The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea…

— B. W. Powe

There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth…

— E. L. Doctorow

“Ah, the smell of mystery and dark doings, of skulduggery and revenge. The meat of a good tale.”

— Glen Cook

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

— Flannery O'Connor

When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about.

— Nick Cave

“If anyone uses the words 'marvelous imagery' or 'narrative arc,' slap them for me.”

— Liane Moriarty

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

— Peter Heller

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

— Oliver Stone

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

— Alice Hoffman

I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.

— Kevin Starr

With no guillotine, 'A Tale of Two Cities' would have been a travel guide.

— Tom Malinowski

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

— Pindar

“I'm not the sort that tells tales about what other people do', he said”

— Fredrik Backman

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

— Anonymous

I got into the genesis of Star Wars, and the tale seemed to me endlessly fascinating.

— Cass Sunstein

“He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

— Elisabeth Rohm