Storytelling Quotes · Page 69

I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs.

— Jill Sobule

If fairy tales doesn't exist it doesn't matter, cause I will make my own fairy tales with modern way

— Anonymous

The Tories have long since abdicated any pretension of principled global leadership.

— Emily Thornberry

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.

— Seth Godin

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

The problem with fairy tales? They teach that as long as you're beautiful you can have whatever you want.

— Anonymous

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

— Kate Morton

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

— Carl Jung

“Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't…

— Dexter Palmer

I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its…

— Rob Roberge

I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse,…

— Grant Morrison

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and…

— Rick Moody

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality…

— Azar Nafisi

I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie.…

— Kevin Wilson

I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully…

— David Grann

I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were…

— Lydia Wilson

The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much…

— John Lennon

I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person and being interested in the…

— Rory Kennedy

Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people…

— Antonio Damasio

To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face…

— Li-Young Lee

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult…

— Joseph Campbell

That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin…

— Anne-Marie Duff

Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial,…

— Charles Dickens

“narrative bias—a bias in that when given the option, you prefer to give and receive information in narrative format.”

— David McRaney

All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

— Bruce Springsteen

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

— Kenzaburo Oe

“The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.”

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore

— Brian De Palma

It is so beautiful that when you watch the film, the marriage between the visuals, the music and the storytelling is seamless.

— Amit Trivedi

There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.

— Elvis Mitchell

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

— Anonymous

“They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and…

— C. G. Jung

It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.

— Alexandra Petri

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

— Charles Hard Townes

People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.

— Jake Barton

The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of…

— Brian McGinn

“You paint the picture of your surroundings. Paint it beautifully.”

— A.D. Posey

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

— Jimmy Carter

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

— V. S. Pritchett