Storytelling Quotes · Page 64

The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another

— Oliver DeMille

“theory includes a transcendent idea, as do all great world narratives.”

— Neil Postman

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

— Andrew Mason

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

Many Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative.

— David Kim

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

— Pat Conroy

“Without stories, how do we know who we are? How can we imagine who we can be?”

— Kate Cann

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

— James Elroy Flecker

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so…

— Stan Lee

Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with…

— Haruki Murakami

Wrestling ultimately comes down to what happens when the bell rings, and it comes down to athleticism, storytelling, and characters - and…

— John Morrison

“What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one…

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr

Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe…

— Jackie Robinson

It is what life tales are, questions without answers but taking part in being a tale of your own life directs you…

— Meekness Tapera

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating…

— Daniel H. Pink

The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a…

— Anne Fortier

“For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their…

— Jodi Picoult

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I…

— Tommy Lee Jones

At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to…

— Umberto Eco

“The fairy tale is not the conclusion, but the doorway to a more brilliant reality. Pushed onto a pedestal as the final…

— Natalie Nyquist

“Reading these tales is like looking at a photograph of a child whom you only knew as an adult. In her eyes…

— Octavia E. Butler

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill…

— Margaret Atwood

“[Fables] teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

— Will Smith

I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

— Roberta Williams

“Being dead is highly overrated. It’s no fun at all." -- Mythe: A Fairy Tale”

— P.J. Gordon

If you truly believe that you write the tale of your own life, then the end is up to you now.

— Ramandeep Singh

Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

— Robert Pollok

“If you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict”

— Antonio Nuñez Lopez

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

— David Burnett

People make their own narrative, the media makes their own narrative.

— Mark Ingram II

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

— Lee Child

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

“No doubt there’s a tale there.’ ‘Indeed, but it’s not relevant.’ ‘Meaning you don’t know it.’ ‘Precisely.”

— Steven Erikson

I don't care what we're quote-unquote selling; we're about inspiring people through storytelling.

— Mindy Grossman

I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.

— James Gunn

I think people create MYTH so that they can hide originality of the society.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

— Anonymous