Storytelling Quotes · Page 57

“meaningless search for random points of correspondence among a hodgepodge of ancient fictions, fables, and myths.”

— Dan Brown

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

— Peggy Noonan

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

— Catherynne M. Valente

There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

— John Stark

“I travel the world. I Take nothing but pictures, kill nothing but time and leave nothing but footprints.”

— Maarten Schäfer

“other tales, the sailors reach a land of intelligent talking animals who find humans disgusting and rather stupid.”

— Robin Hobb

I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live.

— Rush Limbaugh

“It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.”

— Frank Delaney

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust…

— Michael R. Underwood

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to…

— Umberto Eco

My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to…

— Denise Mina

“Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an…

— Nancy Mellon

“A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt…

— Derren Brown

The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time,…

— Rodney Crowell

For so long, I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written…

— Anonymous

I think that storytelling, at its essence, allows us to feel like we all suffer the same insanity or a similar insanity…

— David Harbour

The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that…

— Tobias Wolff

Donald Trump, having spent decades in the public eye as an entertainer, may not understand what the nuclear triad is, or what…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

“I’m surprised a person with your experience in telling elaborate fables should have difficulty in thinking up such a simple tale, but…

— Karen Hawkins

Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of…

— Philip Pullman

“Fairy tales, fantasy, legend and myth...these stories, and their topics, and the symbolism and interpretation of those topics...these things have always held…

— Helen Pilinovsky

“even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to…

— G.K. Chesterton

“But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comparable to…

— Joseph Campbell

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

— Armistead Maupin

Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.

— Elvis Mitchell

“Living in a story of a limited self—to any degree—is not love.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Obviously people loved 'Mystery Road', people loved the storytelling aspect of it, people liked the character.

— Aaron Pedersen

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

— Anil Kapoor

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.

— Dries van Noten

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

— Jennifer McMahon

I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative.

— Hiro Murai

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer…

— Diane Arbus

Broadchurch' was all about shades of grey, both in characters and storytelling, and I wanted to see that through to the end.

— Chris Chibnall

Telling a tale cannot be like living it, no matter what you say, talking of love cannot be like giving it away……

— Santanu Mishra

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of…

— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

— Vera Nazarian

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

— Northrop Frye

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

— Rachel Weisz

Once upon a time, Right in the middle of an ordinary life… Love gives you a fairy tale.

— Ryaj Ablando-Catayas