Storytelling Quotes · Page 52

I'm also on the Board at Sundance, so I've seen witnessed first hand the power of independent storytelling.

— Kenneth Cole

“Don’t satisfy your thirst by drinking stories from others. Write your own story to feel more thirst.”

— Debasish Mridha

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

— Helena Bonham Carter

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

— Dennis Potter

“In spite of life's unpredictable, callous ways, I still believe in fairy tales.”

— Terry a O'Neal

Mama never thought I was bad kid But I got a lot of tales for the grandkids

— 100s

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

— Sam Lipsyte

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

— Ashwin Sanghi

“When my mom was alive, she read me stories every night. ”Use your imagination, Lorelei,” she’d say, “and your whole life can…

— Nikki Loftin

There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to…

— Mandy Moore

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a…

— Maura Tierney

When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style.…

— Jackie Earle Haley

The Tories have been offering us a cocktail of incompetence and malice and Labour haven't done anything to draw attention to it.…

— Frankie Boyle

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your…

— Jonathan Lethem

I think the cinema-going public are smart enough to separate fiction from reality but suspend their disbelief for long enough to be…

— Adam Pearson

The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may…

— Francis Parkman

My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full…

— Lucrecia Martel

I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and…

— Marvin Minsky

The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that…

— Tobias Wolff

Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of…

— Philip Pullman

“I’m surprised a person with your experience in telling elaborate fables should have difficulty in thinking up such a simple tale, but…

— Karen Hawkins

Donald Trump, having spent decades in the public eye as an entertainer, may not understand what the nuclear triad is, or what…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don't get to choose your story any more than you…

— Alexandra Fuller

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

— Tom Brokaw

What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

— Joseph Campbell

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

— Jim Rash

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

— Erin Morgenstern

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not…

— Northrop Frye

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

“Some things die after they born, others born after they die. myths are public dreams, dreams are privet myths...”

— Joseph Campbell

“[...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...]”

— Terry Pratchett

“Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!”

— Varsha Dixit

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

— Scott Eastwood

What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.

— Chinweizu Ibekwe

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

— Ted Hughes

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

— Gregory Peck

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

— Sherman Alexie

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

— Paul Ricoeur