Storytelling Quotes · Page 86

“If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.”

— Deborah J. Levine

I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle…

— Hilary Liftin

Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that - a myth.

— Barry Gardiner

“He read? Oh my God, guys that read were like unicorns. They only existed in fairy tales.”

— J. Lynn

Whether I'm at the gas station or I be at the store, I be there by myself. I be regular.

— Lil Baby

Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.

— Richelle Mead

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

— Margaret Atwood

Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work - that's Prince to me.

— The Weeknd

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present…

— Laurie Foos

“He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane…

— Erin Morgenstern

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which…

— Graham Greene

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of…

— Alice Hoffman

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling,…

— Mel Gibson

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story…

— John Granger

“Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the…

— Jo Walton

When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we…

— James Robertson

I don't differentiate game design and script; it is one and only document. I think that one of the biggest problem with…

— David Cage

People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to…

— Guy Claxton

“Part of dedicating your life to studying literature is realizing that storytelling is more than just make-believe and that make-believe is far…

— Laurie Frankel

Acting was definitely half of what I loved about storytelling and about theater. So, when I get a chance to do a…

— Josh Groban

“We had practiced bits and pieces of his story, but never the whole thing. In fact, I never heard Michael recount his…

— Danielle Allen

Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone…

— Alice Walker

My show is sort of a short-film anthology, and I'm able to tell little stories that don't necessarily carry a whole episode…

— Louis C. K

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of…

— Michael Ondaatje

I am a woman, and sometimes that impacts what stories I want to do.

— Rachel Maddow

I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous.

— Gillian Flynn

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

— Guillermo del Toro

I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear.

— Nicola Sturgeon

I don't need to tell stories about how I prepare or manage myself.

— Derek Carr

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are…

— Irwin Edman

There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.

— Komla Dumor

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

— V. S. Naipaul

“We all need fairy tales to forget the tragedies and difficulties of life, even for a short time!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm extremely into Greek Mythology and know almost everything about the classic Greek myths.

— Jinkx Monsoon

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

— Karen O

“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in…

— Will Blythe

Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.

— Stellan Skarsgard

A narrative of fear surrounds the issue of climate change, and it's being used to completely alter our way of life.

— Leslyn Lewis

I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.

— Joe Russo