Storytelling Quotes · Page 51

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

— Johnny Depp

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

— Faith Prince

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into…

— Peter Guber

I've created things that I thought were not possible. Believing in myself, reality wasn't a myth. The myth became reality.

— Jeremy Limn

Whether or not you believe in fairy-tales. Every girl is a princess to somebody.

— Rachel Copeland

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

— Paul Di Filippo

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

— Lucy Grealy

The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.

— Alan Dundes

Because of all the concurrent stories going in 24 and its fast pace, it can be complicated in terms of the story,…

— Stephen Hopkins

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can…

— William Zinsser

I don't think you ever outgrow your love for things that are bigger than life and more colorful than the average life.…

— Stan Lee

One of the very first ghost stories I read - and that was in a forest rest house, where it is a…

— Ruskin Bond

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is…

— Harriet Lerner

“In my experience, involvement in fairy tales is unavoidable no matter who you are, no matter how many fairy tales you’ve lived…

— Kendra E. Ardnek

Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything…

— Trina Schart Hyman

The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are the currency that we share…

— Neil Gaiman

Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is…

— Anonymous

I think it would be bad for storytellers in general if one company was able to seize a 40-50-60% share in storytelling.…

— John Landgraf

“This is the mighty and branching tree called mythology which ramifies round the whole world whose remote branches under separate skies bear…

— G.K. Chesterton

I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts'…

— Benjamin Walker

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Time is tick, tick, ticking away. How many souls will I capture today? Will they be a challenge or will they be…

— A.K. Kuykendall

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the takes of Middle-earth, and yet it may lift up…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

— William Irwin Thompson

I think people love having a person behind a brand who lives it. The idea of storytelling is really important.

— Aerin Lauder

With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

— Lord Byron

“Nothing is sadder than a child burdened by reality, after all. Those stories were our family fairy tales.”

— Veronica Montes

“Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it...”

— Anonymous

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

— Anonymous

“We may be in the modern digital age, but when it comes to stories, we are still antediluvian.”

— Calvin Niles

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

— Samuel Fuller

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

— Carroll O'Connor

“dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths”

— Justin Evans

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

— Nicolas Cage

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

— Julie Kagawa

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

— Michael Kimmelman

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

— A. S. Byatt