Storytelling Quotes · Page 60

“They’re based in fact, even if mundanes think they’re myth. Shadowhunters have a saying: all the stories are true.”

— Cassandra Clare

“I found out the hard way that fairy tales and true love don't exist”

— Elizabeth Eulberg

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh.

— Joss Whedon

I believe monthly comics and the extended miniseries are the true hallmarks of comic art and storytelling.

— Brian Stelfreeze

“History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the…

— Morris West

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

— Susan Wiggs

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

— Jimmy Buffett

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling…

— Henning Mankell

A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was…

— Linda Hogan

Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that…

— Paul Fussell

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where…

— Chang-Rae Lee

“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales…

— Neil Gaiman

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word…

— Adam Kirsch

“There was a terminal narrative. It was a story until it stopped being a story and until then they kept wanting to…

— Emily Perkins

As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge,…

— Mandy Aftel

“One measure of how deeply these myths express elemental human concerns is the extent to which they are both timeless and universal.…

— Margaret Mark

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening,…

— Umberto Eco

Almost any tale of our doings is comic. We are bottomlessly comic to each other. Even the most adored and beloved person…

— Iris Murdoch

We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class.…

— Herta Muller

Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to…

— Northrop Frye

'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other…

— Tatiana Maslany

At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world.…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“We hold these stories and mad idea and events in our head and they run around and around telling us we are…

— Maureen Muldoon

Once in awhile, Right in the middle of an ordinary life, Love gives us a fairy tale.

— Anonymous

The resilience of narrative storytelling and people's love affair with television is impressive.

— Kevin Reilly

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

— Shane Carruth

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

— Vera Nazarian

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

— Northrop Frye

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of…

— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Telling a tale cannot be like living it, no matter what you say, talking of love cannot be like giving it away……

— Santanu Mishra

I'm very interested in storytelling and anything that plays with structure.

— Matthew Bourne

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.

— Ben Mendelsohn

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

— Sandra Dallas

“And how simple, how sublimely familiar was the tale her body told.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

~Every girl is searching for her Fairy Tale and looking for her Prince Charming <3

— ShannonE

Once upon a time, Right in the middle of an ordinary life… Love gives you a fairy tale.

— Ryaj Ablando-Catayas

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

— Rachel Weisz

Someone once told there's nothing wrong with fairy tales everyone ends up happily ever after in the end.

— Peyton Sawyer

“Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.”

— Ashley Madau