Storytelling Quotes · Page 55

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

— David Hare

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

— Gabe Newell

“My stories are not against anyone; they are for the life we need.”

— Dorothy Allison

We usually center our narratives that come out of Hollywood from a white male center.

— Misha Green

Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.

— Fred Kaplan

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

— Bruce Springsteen

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

— Armistead Maupin

“It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.”

— Frank Delaney

For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it…

— Anonymous

“The Dreamer awakes The shadow goes by The tale I have told you, That tale is a lie. But listen to me,…

— Traditional folktale ending

What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I…

— Debra Hamel

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me.…

— Richard Ray Perez

Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you…

— Peter Greenaway

“Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or…

— Peggy Herring

“And I knew only what all men know, that the cycle of winter and spring and all growing things has within itself…

— Anne Rice

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

— Geoff Hoon

I didn't corner the market on great stories. I'm not the only one who can do something like work at a grocery…

— Kurt Warner

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads…

— Clive Barker

“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated,…

— Joseph Campbell

The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. We are the only creature in the world that does this;…

— Salman Rushdie

Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston…

— Robert McKee

Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek…

— Ken Liu

The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions…

— Adrienne Rich

Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In…

— Melissa Febos

I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live.

— Rush Limbaugh

“other tales, the sailors reach a land of intelligent talking animals who find humans disgusting and rather stupid.”

— Robin Hobb

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.

— Dries van Noten

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

— Anil Kapoor

Obviously people loved 'Mystery Road', people loved the storytelling aspect of it, people liked the character.

— Aaron Pedersen

Broadchurch' was all about shades of grey, both in characters and storytelling, and I wanted to see that through to the end.

— Chris Chibnall

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer…

— Diane Arbus

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

— Jennifer McMahon

I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative.

— Hiro Murai

Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.

— Elvis Mitchell

“Living in a story of a limited self—to any degree—is not love.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Tales are not created to tell the truth, the truth as relative as everything else in life”

— أميرة الشربيني Amira Elsherbiny

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

— Peggy Noonan

“meaningless search for random points of correspondence among a hodgepodge of ancient fictions, fables, and myths.”

— Dan Brown

“Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I travel the world. I Take nothing but pictures, kill nothing but time and leave nothing but footprints.”

— Maarten Schäfer