Storytelling Quotes · Page 89

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

— Elizabeth Strout

“The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.”

— Martin Shaw

“Fact and myth are history’s bedfellows; it’s hard to wake one without disturbing the other.”

— J.G. McKenney

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

— Richard Branson

“We can't meaningfully proceed with healing, with restoration, without "re-story-ation".”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

I feel, in storytelling, people are so afraid that you won't get it unless you pound them over the head.

— David Harbour

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

— E. L. Doctorow

“Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy…

— Matthew Quick

When I about six years old, I loved watching '20/20.' I didn't really know what news was at that age, but I…

— Jen Psaki

“For one last second, I saw them again the way I had that evening: a golden apparition on the front steps, shining…

— Tana French

During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded…

— Cynthia P. Schneider

the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the…

— Molly Ivins

“This is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden—if they were hidden, they could not be…

— Roland Barthes

In college, I got an internship at my local station in Honolulu one summer, and I just fell in love with broadcast…

— Emily Chang

I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the…

— Kelly McCreary

“But as she continued and finished her tale, I could tell that her heart was elsewhere, and when she excused herself to…

— Kelly Barnhill

“There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be…

— Mitch Glazer

“You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender…

— Plato

“When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr.…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“From the cover blurb on the University of Wisconsin Press edition, writer unknown: Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and…

— G. Thomas Couser

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that…

— Diana Wynne Jones

I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales…

— Stanley Kubrick

I used to think about video games, "This is clearly an amazing, new narrative medium, and it's going to be mind-blowing when…

— Alex Garland

“The greater White House wholly believed that the story was an invented construct of weak if not preposterous narrative threads, with a…

— Michael Wolff

So there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't.

— Taylor Swift

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer…

— Danny Fox

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

— Morgan Saylor

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this…

— Oliver Stone

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

— Robert Briffault

You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.

— Frank Spotnitz

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its…

— Stephen King

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

— Jill Lepore

True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.

— Phil Cousineau

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

— William Cowper

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and it's a brand new audience for me.

— Kevin Spacey

I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling.

— John Grisham

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

— Sol LeWitt

Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again.

— Rumi

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

— Cecil Day-Lewis

Stories about travelers coming into town and doing good have been part of our storytelling since the Bible.

— Dean Devlin