Storytelling Quotes · Page 8

“We are what we myth.”

— William G. Doty

“Every painting tells a story.”

— Adrienne Posey

We are the storytelling animal.

— Salman Rushdie

Casting is storytelling.

— Joss Whedon

“Always choose love over fear.”

— A.D. Posey

I hear music as narrative.

— Ajay Naidu

Love this store!(:

— Mee

You write your own narrative.

— Jason Kelce

This ain't a movie no. No fairy tale conclusion ya'll.

— John Legend

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

— Neil Gaiman

“Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.”

— Arzum Uzun

“Death is but a tale we must all some day read.”

— William Grave

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling,

— Cecil B. DeMille

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

— Djuna Barnes

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“For the widow inhabits a tale not of her own telling.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

— Don Henley

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

— Fatih Ak?n

I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own.

— Chath Piersath

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

— Alexander Chee

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with…

— Neil Gaiman

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

— Nick Cave

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

— Jonathan Hickman

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

— Sondre Lerche

A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that 'Silent Cargo' is getting…

— Ellen Wong

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to…

— John Green

I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“A Shadow's Tale - I'm going to keep calling it A Shadow's Tale because fuck America for wanting to be different and…

— Yahtzee Croshaw

We use technology in service of the art, as a storytelling tool - and if we want to do something that's never…

— Travis Knight

A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the…

— John Dos Passos

“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons  attempting to find a moral in it will be…

— Mark Twain

…everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“A BOAT beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July — Children three that nestle near, Eager eye…

— Lewis Carroll

“A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this…

— Alain De Botton

I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over…

— Mark Frost

If I am a fan of my own music, which I am, I want to hear the best Madchild I can hear.…

— Shane Bunting

I was desperately unhappy with it [Blade Runner]. I was compelled by contract to record five or six different versions of the…

— Harrison Ford

The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order…

— Charles Stross

When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds…

— Jane Smiley