Storytelling Quotes · Page 72

“Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

— Norman Macleod

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Words made you laugh and history fell apart into tales and isolated mysteries threatening to be trivial.”

— Joseph McElroy

“The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.”

— Catherine Robinson-Walker

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

— Pamela Yates

I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.

— Cole Sprouse

I think that 'Vinyl''s faster-paced. I think 'Boardwalk' was much more luxurious in its storytelling.

— Terence Winter

It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with…

— Russell Smith

My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers…

— Stephen King

“A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Mani Ratnam was a favourite filmmaker because he did mainstream storytelling but always had a very real context or political backdrop.

— Kabir Khan

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it…

— Thomas Mann

Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really…

— Tom Verica

I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can…

— Lauren Mayberry

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look…

— Walter Kirn

“But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the…

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around…

— Michael Shannon

“With a glance back towards the house, he pulled the secret sketches from within. He'd been working at them on and off…

— Kate Morton

“Here's a story of a girl Who grew up lost and lonely Thinking love was fairy tale And trouble was made only…

— Joss Whedon

“It's possible to find order in chaos, and it's equally possible to find chaos underlying apparent order. Order and chaos are slippery…

— Gavin Extence

I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction…

— Ron Rosenbaum

“What is more, as J. R. R. Tolkien reminds us in his great essay on Beowulf, there is a danger that attends rational and…

— Gregory Alan Thornbury

“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary…

— Michael Chabon

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

— Rhys Ifans

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

— Randall Wallace

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

— Piers Anthony

We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters

— Francesca Lia Block

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

— Jeff Bridges

“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

— Lucy Grealy

Whether or not you believe in fairy-tales. Every girl is a princess to somebody.

— Rachel Copeland

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

— Paul Di Filippo

I think people love having a person behind a brand who lives it. The idea of storytelling is really important.

— Aerin Lauder

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

— William Irwin Thompson

“It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the takes of Middle-earth, and yet it may lift up…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“Nothing is sadder than a child burdened by reality, after all. Those stories were our family fairy tales.”

— Veronica Montes

“Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it...”

— Anonymous

With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

— Lord Byron