Storytelling Quotes · Page 85

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

— Margaret Atwood

“Children need fairy tales because they can see only black and white.”

— Teresa Jordan

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

— Joseph Campbell

“Remember that stories are more than just words, more than fairy tales. They are magic.”

— Valya Dudycz Lupescu

I think you always need to take new, big risks from a storytelling point of view.

— Chris Chibnall

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

— John Dufresne

I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.

— Max Lucado

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

— William H. Gass

“the characterization of actions allegedly prior to any narrative form being imposed upon them will always turn out to be the presentation…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense…

— Sara Sheridan

I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing…

— Mordicai Gerstein

The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost…

— Stephen King

I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the…

— Rick Alverson

I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the…

— Yann Martel

That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn…

— Billy Corgan

My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them,…

— Taylor Sheridan

All storytelling is kind of that - there's a bit of text that you put pressure on that spits out some desire…

— George Saunders

One of the basic motifs in fairy tales is that you find the poor and unfortunate along the side of the road,…

— George Lucas

Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“When a story gets wedged in your head and refuses to go away, when it keeps coming back, again and again, despite…

— Nidhie Sharma

There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of…

— Bertrand Russell

Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood…

— Michael Shermer

The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete…

— Jack Zipes

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything…

— Miriam Toews

I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear.

— Lucas Neff

“You are every fairy tale that I dreamed of and the forever after that I never dared to hope for.”

— Sydney Landon

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

— Stephen Cole

“Your passion as an artist is a magnet that draws you at all times, but if you don’t follow, it will suffocate…

— Pawan Mishra

The mainstream media hears what it wants to hear and has its own narratives.

— Stephen F. Cohen

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.

— Robert Lipsyte

I have an affinity for a lot of things that are kind of fairy-tale-ish and bookish.

— Alison Sudol

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale…

— William Wordsworth

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

— Helen Dunmore

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

— Kiefer Sutherland

“The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.”

— Sharon Salzberg

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

— Paulo Coelho

Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.”

— Edna Ferber

“This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative strength.”

— Namita Gokhale