Storytelling Quotes · Page 76

There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.

— Susanne Wuest

... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

— Shannon Hale

“I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.

— John Grant

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

— Lauren Beukes

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

— Michael Scott

“Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.”

— Amit Kalantri

My mother used 'Cinderella' as the antidote of what was in store for me.

— Catherine Oxenberg

“To know if a tale is worth its weight in gold, check if it reveals threefold. In your bloodstream. In the town…

— Amruta Patil

There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation…

— Lynn Nottage

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English…

— Karl Marx

We do live in an age where film references are as relevant as tales from our past and the stories of our…

— Emma D'Arcy

I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done…

— Arvind Ethan David

“Authors are the curators of experience. They filter the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they…

— Peter Mendelsund

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place…

— Italo Calvino

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same…

— Anonymous

“And if we only organize our life according to the principle which teaches us always to hold to what is difficult, then…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Ideally, writers and narrative designers should be included much earlier in the process, where they can be of most benefit. However, although…

— Rhianna Pratchett

Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.…

— Joseph Campbell

“Narratives, stories, help create a deeper sense of shared identity. They generate meaning and foster cooperative actions through neurochemical correlates that kick…

— David Amerland

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to…

— Adam Ross

Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you…

— Don Was

I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found…

— George Sand

“Would you believe in a story without the heroes? There are stories without heroes.”

— Pushpa Rana

“what was myth in one world might always be fact in some other.”

— C.S. Lewis

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

— William Zinsser

“Life has no fairy-tale endings. But it has fairy tale moments.”

— Tracy Winegar

The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.

— Parker Posey

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

— Neil Gaiman

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

— Michael Bergin

“Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

— John Howe

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

— Guillermo del Toro

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

— Simon McBurney

As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.

— Jack Driscoll

“My #love stories have happy endings, because I stop the tales before dejection, dementia, and death occur.”

— Jarod Kintz

“This is how reason really works: through framing, metaphors, emotion, narratives, and imagery.”

— George Lakoff

We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.

— Stephen Jay Gould