Storytelling Quotes · Page 67

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

— Margot Asquith

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is…

— Linda Ellerbee

And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

— John Milton

I would rather impress you with my storytelling than with the size of my waist and my hips.

— Tink

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.

— Kevin Spacey

'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.

— Kenneth Branagh

If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.

— Gary Lutz

Comedy is changing. The appetite for more diverse stories is getting bigger.

— Lolly Adefope

“She married a man who soon left her; that man became a myth; and then that myth returned home and proved to…

— Nelson Mandela

“You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better…

— Karen Lord

“The inner work that must be done will not always be easy and the road will not always be smooth, but it…

— Daniel Mangena

Narrative cinema is just an imitation of life. Why would you prevent yourself and the audience of the same images, of the…

— Gaspar Noe

“And then I realize I am the writer. I don't mean because I write. I mean because we all write our own…

— Samantha Ellis

I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those…

— Isabella Rossellini

I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic…

— Kenneth Branagh

“While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark…

— Trevor P. Wardlaw

The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how…

— Nicholas Ozeki

“Storytelling gives form to the metal dialogue of the mind and in doing so, reveals our self-fiction. Memory and imagination fills part…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“All great myths and stories follow a similar pattern. The hero gets distracted and questions his power. He struggles and flounders until…

— Darren Main

There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the…

— Linda Hogan

You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments…

— Tony Kushner

I love my work. What's more fun than playing with imagination? I also believe storytelling is the most powerful way people communicate…

— Lucy Jane Bledsoe

“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve…

— Angelina Jolie

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

— Louis L'Amour

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

— Umberto Eco

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

— Karen Lord

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

— Patricia McCormick

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

— Amanda Seyfried

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

— Mason Cooley

Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.

— Andy Serkis

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

— Gena Showalter

Peopelnt think there butefuil that is a myth everybody is beautiful

— Anonymous

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

— Bill Sienkiewicz

For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.

— Ira Berlin

The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives.

— Guy Maddin

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

— Anonymous

As soon as I left Georgia, my narrative became about taking risks and the fight for creative bedroom artists with no platform.

— Kevin Abstract