Storytelling Quotes · Page 58

I'd love to do something like 'A Canterbury Tale,' because I love the English language.

— Martin McDonagh

“Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

— Gilbert Ryle

I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.

— Travis Kalanick

“I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.”

— Sara Sheridan

“so eager for a fairy tale, you create one where it doesn’t exist.”

— J.A. Huss

Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

— Kate Forsyth

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

— Beverly Cleary

“Stories matter. They shape our lives, expectations, and dreams. They are the warp and weave of our human existence, binding us into…

— Bascomb James

“Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as…

— Neil Gaiman

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no…

— William Shakespeare

More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses…

— Reese Witherspoon

In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed…

— Dinaw Mengestu

“The folly and the glory of the world... the wild, the wise and the wicked... the hero, the madman, the wanderer and…

— Brian Holguin

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks…

— Chris Abani

I think that there's a sense that procedurals, because they have more of a formula to the storytelling, it doesn't necessarily rate…

— Channing Dungey

As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A,…

— Oscar Hijuelos

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us,…

— Michael Shermer

“Naturally all of them had a sad story: too much notice, not enough, or the worst kind. Some tale about dragon daddies…

— Toni Morrison

“West Bank Fairytales is a place where with the help of valuable hands and wise heads one can agree on a fairy…

— Penina Mezei

Because it was my first DC project, I wanted to make sure that if I only got one issue out of it,…

— Charles Soule

It is our stories [classic Disney films] that make us human - so Owen [Suskind] has become an expert in what connects…

— Roger Ross Williams

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation…

— John Lasseter

If there is one thing I think I have accomplished, it's that I always thought of myself as a very literal songwriter,…

— Ben Gibbard

Obviously I have propagated the occasional myth about myself, because the real me, I'm not worth knowing.

— Keith Allen

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

— Stacy Schiff

“Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any”

— Yuval Noah Harari

That's what storytelling is. It's excising the demons and taking a look at the hard subjects.

— Kari Skogland

“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring…

— Karen Hines

“But I had to dream. I had to hope. Even if it made me the fool of this particular tale.”

— C. Robert Cargill

Its not about the ones who tell the stories its about those who pass them on.

— Karen Loomis

I think you always win in storytelling when you let the best creative ideas guide you.

— Peter Billingsley

“Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.”

— Johann Schiller

I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one.

— Juan Pablo Escobar

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

— Libby Larsen

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

— Anonymous

I think the myth about the 'silent generation' is just that, a myth.

— David Dellinger

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

— Mike Figgis

“We're all storytellers. We choose to tell ourselves the kind of tale we want to hear.”

— Danielle Ganek