Storytelling Quotes · Page 66

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

— Sherwood Anderson

“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.”

— Jane Alison

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“you know: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF HUGS IS THE ENTIRE REASON I EVER ENGAGE IN ANY NARRATIVE, FICTIONAL OR OTHERWISE??”

— Ryan North

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

— Susan Sontag

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing.

— Rick Wakeman

Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.

— Hasan Minhaj

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

— Mary Higgins Clark

Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your…

— Anonymous

When you're telling taut, tight storytelling that has any kind of built-in plot twist elements, you tend to want to stack everything…

— Julie Plec

“I didn’t think that fairy tale was the right term. It all seemed like a nightmare with a few blissful chapters inserted…

— Keary Taylor

“All narrative begins for me as listening. When I read, I listen. When I write, I listen—for silence, inflection, rhythm, rest.”

— Toni Morrison

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can…

— Dick Wolf

'How to Train Your Dragon,' the first one, was a film I'd seen prior to being approached for the sequel. I don't…

— Kit Harington

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against…

— Marina Warner

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then…

— Bruno Heller

“We had proceeded but a few days, coasting the crushing capes of rock that every where seemed to run out in a…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a…

— David Plotz

For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored…

— Gloria Steinem

“It wouldn't be practical to have sections called "Dog Stories", "Horse Stories", "Mid-life Crisis and Adultery", "Writers and Artists Struggling to Discover…

— Orson Scott Card

“The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other…

— Gilles Deleuze

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so…

— Keanu Reeves

I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of…

— Ayad Akhtar

In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore…

— Ben Affleck

“A stranger lies behind my eyes, I know not what he wants; sells me dreams, tells me tales, then with the truth,…

— Akash Mandal

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

— Willa Cather

Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.

— David Mixner

Some films are aspirational. But there is room for stories which don't have a beginning or end.

— Soha Ali Khan

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

— Alethea Kontis

'Lucky Life' is my second narrative film. I worked on the idea for 'Lucky Life' while in Rwanda for my first film.

— Lee Isaac Chung

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

— Joseph Campbell

I never like to do storytelling where everything is just copacetic right after that episode.

— Salim Akil

“You are far too stolid and unimaginative, Watson, to invent a tale like that.”

— James Lovegrove

You never quite know what's in store for the Royal Rumble, and I think that's the beauty of it.

— Kofi Kingston

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

— Sandra Bullock

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

— Hans Christian Andersen

“I don't believe in fairy tales. I believe in making my own damn tale.”

— Nicole Williams

The media likes stories. We like narratives. we don't like facts. We don't like justice.

— Will Cain

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

— Dean Koontz

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

— Ian Mckellen