Storytelling Quotes · Page 51

I think storytelling in general is how we really deeply know things. It's ancient.

— Ellen Ullman

Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.

— Fred Ritchin

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

— Greg van Eekhout

“people can die of mere imagination - Geffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales”

— Paul Strohm

Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.

— Simon Sinek

Things That Actually Happen Are Often More Surprising Than Stories That Are Invented...

— Pacifiersucker

To me, storytelling is a mystery. Especially when you're directing.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

“You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth.”

— Ali Smith

'The Terminator' is grounded in so much realism. It's again a story that centers around a woman that isn't a 'woman's picture'…

— Zal Batmanglij

In terms of 'Ray Donovan,' the story is so rich, the actors are so fantastic, the writing is impeccable. And it's such…

— Katherine Moennig

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far…

— Brian Jacques

If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible…

— Guillermo del Toro

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in…

— Michael Lewis

“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in…

— Claudia Rankine

“Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off…

— Kate Morton

Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives,…

— Joseph Campbell

“Breitbart’s genius was that he grasped better than anyone else what the early twentieth-century press barons understood—that most readers don’t approach the…

— Joshua Green

I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot…

— Nic Pizzolatto

I'm seeing more and more interesting horror come my way. More and more interesting thrillers and genre films are coming my way…

— Karyn Kusama

Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics…

— Joseph Campbell

Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best…

— Dan Hill

Apart from a couple that were just having fun with the concept and making fun of [Donald] Trump - like the one…

— Joss Whedon

I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very…

— James McBride

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

— Paul Auster

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

— Terry Pratchett

“If the future depends on stories, then our future looks bright indeed.”

— Pawan Mishra

I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

— Winston Churchill

“Maybe, in the end it's the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters.”

— Stephen King

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

— Val McDermid

“This is a fairy tale. A tale of humans and creatures . . . and magic.”

— Shirow Miwa

“Each song had a story to tell, each song was a small, but significant tale.”

— Lindy Zart

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

— Cillian Murphy

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

— Anonymous

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

— David Mamet

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

— Ambrose Bierce

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

— Paul Di Filippo

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

— Charles de Lint

“This was how normal people survived their own fairy tales. They became their own kind of monster.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

— Ashton Kutcher