Storytelling Quotes · Page 55

Come along it is the break of day. Surely now, you'll have some things to say. It's not the time for telling…

— Sia

“Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

— Friedrich Schiller

I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

— Ira Glass

When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it's the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with…

— Dua Lipa

Everything starts with fishermen's tales. Everywhere you go the fishermen talk.

— Jeremy Wade

“some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid…

— Stephen King

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it…

— Joss Whedon

Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by…

— Mark Ravenhill

Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and…

— Charles Sturridge

As the Tories sit back with their fingers in their ears, we'll continue to offer solutions that show how we will make…

— Rachel Reeves

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Tales within tales. Dreams within dreams. Pattern on pattern and path beyond path. For such short-lived folks, the human kind seem determined…

— Juliet Marillier

Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with…

— Larry Brooks

“The Rough Beast snorted. “You don’t get it at all, buddy. It’s not about wrestling. It’s about stories. We’re storytellers.” Caperton studied…

— Sam Lipsyte

I went to a seminar early in my career on the craft of storytelling by Robert McKee. It was really life altering.…

— Jane Jensen

Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon…

— Roland Barthes

'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other…

— Tatiana Maslany

Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to…

— Northrop Frye

While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought…

— David Hayter

“We hold these stories and mad idea and events in our head and they run around and around telling us we are…

— Maureen Muldoon

The narratives in which you're born have a fierce pattern of repetition.

— Mahesh Bhatt

The more life stories you have together, the more you have to say on stage.

— Susan Tedeschi

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

— Robert Anton Wilson

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

— Susan Wittig Albert

If you can connect with the audience emotionally, that's potent storytelling.

— Travis Knight

“Those are stories, little one,” said the cobbler. “Stories are made up except when they’re not.”

— John Joseph Adams

“We are all searching for the fairy tale. When it doesn't come, we try to create it.”

— Linda Masemore Pirrung

People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.

— Rod Blackhurst

I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative…

— Rodney Crowell

Everything is a catwalk for me. I walk to the store, and that's a catwalk.

— Cam'ron

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

— Harold Wilson

Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will…

— Ed Sabol

“Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…”

— Thomas Moore

Her fairy tale would include me and a basketball.. On her home court.

— Raghib Clitso

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

— Oliver Harris

“guys that read were like unicorns. They only existed in fairy tales.”

— J. Lynn