Storytelling Quotes · Page 79

“Sometimes the only difference between myth and truth is the spelling.”

— John Pirillo

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than…

— Philip Pullman

“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, we live our lives based on dead men's tale.”

— Abhijit Naskar

For me, it's just always about trying to tell stories that I care about.

— Rachel Morrison

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.

— Jamila Woods

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

— Scott Turow

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

— Alan Lee

“So there’s a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn’t about how much sense you make,…

— Nalo Hopkinson

In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was…

— Anonymous

What I think of as 'freakonomics' is mostly storytelling around an idea - not a theme but an idea. I like ideas…

— Stephen J. Dubner

I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always…

— Grant Morrison

We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us…

— Julie Taymor

If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be…

— Gautham Menon

In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives,…

— Richard Misrach

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are…

— Cheryl Strayed

As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was always very interested in the storytelling decisions that went into directing. It just held this real allure for me. You…

— Fred Savage

“They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads…

— Frances Hardinge

Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with…

— David G. McAfee

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. It is an adventure, a storybook with each chapter a new tale.…

— Allie McLaughlin

“I have quite a story to tell you,” Parke said with a dramatic flair. “Sit back with that ‘coke’ and listen to…

— Derek Hart

“I believe that we need good tale-tellers now, as much as we did when the oral tradition was the only way that…

— Alan Lee

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

— Aaron Sorkin

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

— Walter Scott

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

— Jack Kirby

“Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.”

— Marcus Borg

I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.

— Lucy Walker

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

— Bill Hader

“She reminded me that I could write stories,/ could be struck by lightning & live.”

— Jen Currin

“We write because we need somewhere for the stories in our heads to live.”

— Dana George

Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.

— Jesmyn Ward

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

— Danai Gurira

We feel a lot of the future of storytelling is going to be in the VR space.

— Joe Russo

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

— Katherine Applegate

“The quietest ideas often become the loudest stories.” — Christina Collins”

— Christina Collins

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

— Haruki Murakami

The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing.

— Justin Peck

Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.

— Ben Barnes