Storytelling Quotes · Page 81

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

In my store, I don't do anything political. There are no signs up, and I'm not pushing anyone.

— Rick Harrison

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

— Derren Brown

We all have different narratives; all of our narratives are at different stages of development.

— Viola Davis

“Not every tale has a happy ending. In fact, many of them are grim.”

— Chanda Hahn

Any question about narrative storytelling is answered by Dickens.

— Steven Knight

Film is all about telling stories, and telling stories is the thing that has pushed forward humanity from the beginning of storytelling.

— Nia DaCosta

“of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored…

— Tudor Parfitt

“When you talk to an author or an artist, you’re only ever getting half the story. We are crafting narratives for you.…

— Phoebe North

“Myths are the retrospective transfiguration of sacrificial crises, the reinterpretation of those crises in light of the cultural order that has arisen…

— René Girard

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be…

— Sonya Hartnett

I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I…

— John le Carre

Keep in mind that we're always up to other things, so we tend to sit on things from time to time. In…

— Glenn McQuaid

The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy…

— Bruno Bettelheim

It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives…

— Haruki Murakami

I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their…

— Melissa Febos

“Storyteller's Creed: I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful…

— Robert Fulghum

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic…

— Carlos Fuentes

“There was a time he’d heard tales of Dab Sweet and he’d stuck thumbs in his belt and chin to the sky…

— Joe Abercrombie

“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said…

— Oliver Sacks

“As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not…

— Jonathan Gottschall

“Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.”

— Lloyd Jones

There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.

— Malachi Kirby

Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

— Rollo May

“ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.”

— FILM CRIT HULK

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

— Steven Spielberg

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

— Henry David Thoreau

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

— Edmond de Goncourt

Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally…

— Michel Ocelot

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

— Brandon Sanderson

“In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great informing myth, familiarity equaled timelessness”

— David Foster Wallace

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

— Sarah Dessen

“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.”

— Daikichi Irokawa

“Stories don't always have to end happily.. Sometimes it's just enough that they end.”

— Terri Cheney

With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling.

— Nick Nolte

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