Storytelling Quotes · Page 49

When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it.

— Liz Murray

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up…

— Erin Morgenstern

You can get away with making some extremely bold statements by Trojan Horsing them into a narrative via comedy.

— Camille Perri

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

— Michael Shermer

I had to grow up fast because we know it's not all fairy tales out there; it's full of rubbish.

— Cher Lloyd

In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.

— Margaret Atwood

Learning to accept other's stories, tales, misgivings, etc., will make others more willing to accept yours.

— Senoraroy

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.

— Justin Kirk

“I’m writing a book, one letter at a time. After thirteen days, I just finished writing “Once upon a time.” Since it’s…

— Jarod Kintz

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms…

— Gilbert Ryle

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into…

— Christina Baldwin

Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to…

— Hilary Mantel

It's interesting to marry American musical traditions with the subtlety of English-style storytelling and folk singer-songwriters like Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch…

— Johnny Flynn

The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales.…

— Joseph Jacobs

“Even if the story relating to some of them may not belong to literary history, it certainly does belong in the story…

— Arthur Schnitzler

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

— Joseph Campbell

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what…

— Harry Crews

The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect…

— Peter Ho Davies

In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end…

— Sloane Crosley

“Once that work has permeated the mainstream—once it’s found “a host body,” in David Brock’s phrase—then comes the “pivot.” Heroes and villains…

— Joshua Green

Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world…

— Junot Diaz

I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological…

— Seanan McGuire

Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and…

— Robert M. Utley

I think of myself as a storytelling, and one of the reasons why people have held my stuff close to them is…

— Neal Adams

“He was beginning to understand how those ridiculous tales had made her a prisoner of others’ expectations.”

— Tessa Dare

“The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.

— Osamu Dazai

Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.

— Peter Travers

The world is full of such tales of fate and coincidence, for that's what we burn into our memories.

— Skyrim

“Fairy tales weren't made of common sense and logic—they were leaps of faith.”

— Heather Long

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

— Howard Shore

Music in Africa is perceived so differently than Western classical music - it's language and storytelling.

— Ludwig Goransson

“I earn the magic of words by writing. I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.”

— Toba Beta

If you are going to judge a book by its cover, don't be disappointed if the story tells a different tale.

— Kos

“We are not only the tellers of our stories, we are the stories themselves.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.

— Claire Messud

I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

— Megan Boone

“His pen spoke more to her than he ever did”. In the war of words, some are unwritten and some are unspoken.”

— Nishikant

Atanu is one of my favourite directors. His script, style of storytelling and characterisation are always very different.

— Prosenjit Chatterjee