Storytelling Quotes · Page 61

Tale as old as time, tune as old as song. Bittersweet and strange, finding you can change, learning you were wrong.

— Beauty And The Beast

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

— Gilbert Murray

“Like most pure fungi narratives, its interpretation and retelling into human terms is uncertain.”

— Orrin Grey

If I'm doing a daily soap I would like my character to drive the narrative.

— Rupali Ganguly

There is a narrative of 'Washington fighting' because it's interesting and it's drama.

— Katie Hill

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

— Gilbert Ryle

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

— Regina Spektor

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

— Neil Gaiman

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the…

— Rudyard Kipling

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up…

— Salman Rushdie

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns…

— Gloria Vanderbilt

This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the…

— Arthur Keith

“Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a…

— Rachel Higginson

“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only…

— Jeanette Winterson

The problem with fairy tales is that they set a girl up for disappointment. In real life, the Prince goes off with…

— Aashi

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about…

— Joe Abercrombie

While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought…

— David Hayter

“Family myths are cherished by the people who--however unwittingly--have brought them into being. In my own situation, what my father was really…

— Mark Sichel

“For as long as she can remember, telling stories has been her momma's gift to those around her, fables filled with rich,…

— Sara Stark

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field,…

— Lois Lowry

“I had the view of a castle of romance inhabited by a rosy spirit, such a place as would somehow, for diversion…

— Henry James

“I read Greek myths. I read about far off places, Venice and Paris. I read about men who searched for things they…

— Alice Hoffman

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. To keep these characters static - like Superman…

— Brian Azzarello

One of the reasons why I think virtual reality, as a narrative format, is never going to go beyond the short-form immersion…

— Steven Soderbergh

“I hide away in my room to see Just what stories will come to me.”

— P.B. McIlrath

My life is a tale you are my faire I need you plzzz come and rescue me…

— Rohit

We're big fans of balance in storytelling, and we like movies that hit every emotion.

— Anthony Russo

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

— Diodorus Siculus

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

— Daniel Kahneman

I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.

— David Cage

I want to be around people that are just as enthusiastic about the process and storytelling as I am.

— John David Washington

Marvel's storytelling is much wilder than 'The OA's,' but no one talks about that.

— Zal Batmanglij

I think what happens normally in a narrative film is that the camera constructs the reality.

— Sam Seder

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

— Tom Petty

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

— Frank Herbert

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

— Massimiliano Gioni

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

— Anne Waldman

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

— Kate Forsyth

“All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.”

— Margaret Atwood