Storytelling Quotes · Page 82

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

As a kid, I loved storytelling, and I liked the way rappers would paint pictures.

— Jensen Karp

A successful magazine has to build a myth its readers can believe in.

— Anonymous

“For every culture-hero living out his myth, there must be a witness willing to pass the story on. Then”

— Michael Muhammad Knight

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

— Delia Sherman

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

— James Genn

“No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.”

— Mark Twain

Film makers should be able to experiment with narrative without alienating the audience and without creating something that's impenetrable.

— Christopher Nolan

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels…

— Jonathan Franzen

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me…

— Joe Madureira

I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in…

— Shoojit Sircar

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts,…

— Oliver Sacks

“His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in…

— Shaun Jeffrey

If you go back to early folk, it's all storytelling; that's exactly what it is: some guy telling a story in a…

— Passenger

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations…

— Henry Jenkins

The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is,…

— Steven Bochco

The idea of suggesting that Hannibal Lecter - in the book, he has a sixth finger and red eyes, and so there…

— Bryan Fuller

“You may have come to advocacy on your own, it may be part of your job or you may have been asked…

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich…

— David Milch

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's…

— Stanley Kubrick

I'm an actor, so I'm interested in the pursuit of storytelling and character and challenging myself and expanding my craft. That's not…

— Tatiana Maslany

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the…

— Joseph Campbell

A friend knows all of your best stories but a sister has been through all of them with you...

— Anonymous

We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.

— Sabrina Carpenter

Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths.

— Michael Tsarion

I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.

— Alexandra Byrne

I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling.

— Ruzwana Bashir

To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.

— Billy Campbell

“Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own”

— Carla H. Krueger

'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama,…

— Jasmila Zbanic

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

— Armie Hammer

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

— Howard Jacobson

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” – Hannah Arendt”

— R.L. Adams

“Words are action, and sentences represent a person’s mental action and aspirations.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

— Hannah Kent

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

— Polybius

“The tale is, in large part, our capital. I was nourished on tales...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.”

— Simone Schwarz-Bart

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

— Samuel Johnson