Storytelling Quotes · Page 74

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

— Faith Prince

I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.

— Paul Scheuring

The hardest part about storytelling is knowing what happens in the end.

— Tye Sheridan

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities

— Vince Cable

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

— Rupert Sanders

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

— Joseph Jacobs

“But most important, she had broken through that invisible wall of terror that surrounded her, and lived to tell the tale.”

— Robin Schwarz

While I don't like violent programs per se, I do like good storytelling, which made me a fan of shows like Breaking…

— Hank Stuever

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go…

— Jon Ronson

Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of…

— Lloyd Alexander

“To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they…

— Megan Abbott

VR should offer an experience that's more exciting than watching in 2D, and we're pretty good at 2D storytelling, so the bar's…

— Doug Liman

“You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters." “Beautiful and full of monsters?"…

— Laini Taylor

“Everyone will say I'm insane, but I don't care, Rose. Is it insane to marry the girl I love? A girl with…

— Melanie Dickerson

First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how…

— Debbie Macomber

“It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls…

— Diane Setterfield

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I think so. There are so many tales, so strange and beautiful and perfect. They are not what are real, but better.…

— Shannon Hale

There's been a great development with scale on TV, but my approach is always the same across projects, whether it's a video…

— Ramin Djawadi

“However, I have also argued for allegory’s positive effects. It is a process that typically takes control away from the author of…

— Helen Morales

“We said ‘pretty women in the sea,’ and that was good enough, because who doesn’t want there to be pretty women in…

— Mira Grant

“Narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetical responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become not just agents of our own lives,…

— Richard Kearney

“In the entire history of the universe, there are many tales worth telling. ”

— Matthew Kadish

“Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.”

— Don Roff

I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at.

— James Gray

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about…

— Alan Moore

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

— Charles Dickens

“It's hard to do, to tell one story, when there are so many stories to tell.”

— Bernie Mcgill

“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”

— Derren Brown

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

— Carl Jung

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

— Paul Henderson

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

— Walter Benjamin

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

— Paul Gauguin

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

— C. S. Lewis

Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.

— Thorne Smith

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

— Eli Wallach

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

— Julie Kagawa

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

— Michael Kimmelman