Storytelling Quotes · Page 80

Storytelling has changed. Shows like 'Adventure Time' have taken storytelling in a different direction.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

— E. L. Doctorow

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

— Kelley Armstrong

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

— Lauren Lapkus

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

— Robert Fulghum

We like mature storytelling. We like dramatic storytelling. We like intense storytelling.

— Anthony Russo

“I don't have any stories. All that shit I tell you actually happens. ”

— Kristen Ashley

I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

— Sandra Cisneros

A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame…

— Luanne Rice

The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and…

— Bruce Feirstein

“Reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family; and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own…

— M.T Anderson

“Though a story may begin as a lie, perhaps it can be made true. Perhaps their ultimate power is found in how…

— Matthew J. Kirby

“The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open…

— Carlos Fuentes

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will…

— Erin Morgenstern

Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of…

— Cormac McCarthy

'Black Mirror' obviously has its own universe, with a very strong fingerprint and strong themes, and I was intrigued on reading. It's…

— Max Richter

I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he…

— Sabina Murray

I always find time to read novels and poetry as well as scripts; I like to enjoy different kinds of storytelling. I…

— Rose McIver

Lifelong wrestling fans who are discovering NXT and being like, 'Wait, this is the kind of wrestling I used to like,' or,…

— Sami Zayn

I got the script of Imperial Dreams from my agent. I was at home having a full English breakfast and the email…

— John Boyega

“Although social relationships may be crippled by acrimonious minefields, manipulative psychological gambits or mysterious undercurrent power games, a number of social tell-tale…

— Erik Pevernagie

As I got a little older, I discovered Lori McKenna and Patty Griffin and found out how many other tools we have…

— Ashley McBryde

For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in…

— Teddy Wayne

I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating…

— Bill Callahan

I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.

— Anonymous

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

— Christina Baldwin

“No matter how shitty things are, you can always get a song out of it.”

— Grant Morrison

Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

— Karen Thompson Walker

My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.

— Anne Reid

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

— James Patterson

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was…

— Tom Robbins

People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.

— Clint Smith

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.

— Jesse Williams

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn..

— Shannon Hale

“No one wants to sit through a drawn-out tale any more than they want a third nipple”

— Andrew Cormier

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“Fairy tales are best read as entertainment,” Harry said. “Not as a guide to life.”

— Lisa Kleypas

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

— Neil MacGregor

I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.

— Abby Huntsman

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

— Alexander Chee