Storytelling Quotes · Page 57

“Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…”

— Thomas Moore

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

— Oliver Harris

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

— Ray Bradbury

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

— Todd Gitlin

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

— Walton Goggins

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

— George Lucas

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

— Anne Enright

People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.

— Rod Blackhurst

Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and…

— Marcus Sedgwick

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

— John Milton

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz…

— Haruki Murakami

“A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is…

— Karen Armstrong

I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the…

— Toni Jerrman

Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It…

— Ken Hom

As filmmakers, we love ambitious storytelling; it's one of the reasons we pushed to do 'Civil War.' We want to be as…

— Joe Russo

I'm a lover of film and storytelling. I believe that I was put on earth to tell stories, and I'm not interested…

— Justin Simien

Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the…

— Kate Horsley

“My great-great grandfather and I were best of friends, although we never met. Fire and shipwreck orphan us – 140 years apart.…

— Raji Singh

Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the…

— John Cheever

“That is the power of a good story. It can encourage you, it can make you laugh, it can bring you joy.…

— Jeff Dixon

Your first film is always your best film, in a way. There's something about your first film that you never ever get…

— Danny Boyle

The biggest compliment? I would say, "You helped me." I think in terms of life, not just with acting. But certainly with…

— Thomas Sadoski

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels,…

— Kate Forsyth

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have…

— Eugene Ionesco

I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative…

— Rodney Crowell

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

— Susan Wittig Albert

The more life stories you have together, the more you have to say on stage.

— Susan Tedeschi

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“Those are stories, little one,” said the cobbler. “Stories are made up except when they’re not.”

— John Joseph Adams

“We are all searching for the fairy tale. When it doesn't come, we try to create it.”

— Linda Masemore Pirrung

If you can connect with the audience emotionally, that's potent storytelling.

— Travis Knight

Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will…

— Ed Sabol

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

— Harold Wilson

Everything is a catwalk for me. I walk to the store, and that's a catwalk.

— Cam'ron

What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me,…

— Sarah Stillman

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

— Mollie King

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

— Josh Hutcherson

Women bring things to the storytelling of news that is maybe more relatable to the women that are consuming.

— Dana Bash

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

— Rex Stout

“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.”

— Chuck Wendig