Storytelling Quotes · Page 53

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom…

— Catherine Hardwicke

“Fairy tales die hard in the minds and hearts of some girls. Quinn”

— Beth Harbison

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

— Ransom Riggs

“May you never grow too old to believe in magic and fairy tales.”

— Misty Dawn Seidel

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food…

— Klaus Kinski

I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

— Lotte Reiniger

“But history has been adapted here, re-spun to tell Jan's tale: the story of a boy caught up in a world of…

— Joanne Owen

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different…

— Allison Mack

I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself,…

— David Fincher

Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with…

— Judy Blundell

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain…

— James Franco

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the…

— Zadie Smith

Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything…

— Paterson Joseph

“As the months went by, Talese began to see the masseuse as a kind of unlicensed therapist. Just as thousands of people…

— Gay Talese

“Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition…

— Jacqui Stedmon

I think that storytelling, at its essence, allows us to feel like we all suffer the same insanity or a similar insanity…

— David Harbour

The way that people are watching TV is changing. The landscape of television is changing. Movies are becoming much more insular. They're…

— Seth Gabel

“But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comparable to…

— Joseph Campbell

“even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to…

— G.K. Chesterton

“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description…

— George R. R. Martin

I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super…

— Kerry James Marshall

“All that's needed now is a great novel that will capture the imagination of the public - move them, enrage them, thrill…

— Michael Farber

I'm actually quite critical of the storytelling theme. I think all the storytellers are not storytellers.

— Stefan Sagmeister

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

— Holly Near

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

— Mitch Albom

“There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I think so many women allow themselves to be defined by somebody else's narrative.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom.

— David Farr

“Sometimes you just have to hold each other’s hands and walk through it all.”

— A.D. Posey

All the Indigenous paintings throughout history, they were always a bird's eye view, it's the Indigenous way of storytelling.

— Aaron Pedersen

“We testify of what we have experienced and witnessed. May our testimony inspired others to share their story.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story.

— Wally Pfister

“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.”

— Stephen King

“If we stop believe in fairy tales, we kill any hope in reality.”

— Chris Southwave

“This is not your mom’s fairy tale.' From a review of my novel, 'Course of Mirrors.”

— Ashen Venema

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

— Harry Lloyd

“I don't know these stories as well as they know me, I've discovered.”

— Joan Gould