Storytelling Quotes · Page 58

~Every girl is searching for her Fairy Tale and looking for her Prince Charming <3

— ShannonE

“And how simple, how sublimely familiar was the tale her body told.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm very interested in storytelling and anything that plays with structure.

— Matthew Bourne

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

— Sandra Dallas

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.

— Ben Mendelsohn

I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh.

— Joss Whedon

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I found out the hard way that fairy tales and true love don't exist”

— Elizabeth Eulberg

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative…

— Paul Auster

In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even…

— Alexander Payne

“Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative.”

— Gao Xingjian

“Rage Against the Dying Light is my fairy tale, even though it is based on a true story. For everyone knows that…

— Jan Surasky

Politics is a brutal business and since 2010 the Tories have been engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the opposition, trying primarily to…

— Cathy Newman

I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing,…

— Glenn McQuaid

“I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk…

— Charles de Lint

It is quite surreal having a film made about your life. The whole process of turning real life into drama is interesting…

— Heather Brooke

This is the Ben Crump model: He goes into a city, creates a narrative, cherry picks facts to establish, to prove that…

— Daniel Cameron

“All that's needed now is a great novel that will capture the imagination of the public - move them, enrage them, thrill…

— Michael Farber

I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super…

— Kerry James Marshall

“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description…

— George R. R. Martin

“Breitbart’s genius was that he grasped better than anyone else what the early twentieth-century press barons understood—that most readers don’t approach the…

— Joshua Green

Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives,…

— Joseph Campbell

Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics…

— Joseph Campbell

I'm seeing more and more interesting horror come my way. More and more interesting thrillers and genre films are coming my way…

— Karyn Kusama

I believe monthly comics and the extended miniseries are the true hallmarks of comic art and storytelling.

— Brian Stelfreeze

“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.”

— Jacqueline Carey

Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.

— Carrie Donovan

“They’re based in fact, even if mundanes think they’re myth. Shadowhunters have a saying: all the stories are true.”

— Cassandra Clare

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

— Shane Carruth

The resilience of narrative storytelling and people's love affair with television is impressive.

— Kevin Reilly

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

— Jimmy Buffett

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

— Susan Wiggs

“History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the…

— Morris West

Once in awhile, Right in the middle of an ordinary life, Love gives us a fairy tale.

— Anonymous

I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.

— David Cage

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

— Daniel Kahneman

Marvel's storytelling is much wilder than 'The OA's,' but no one talks about that.

— Zal Batmanglij

I want to be around people that are just as enthusiastic about the process and storytelling as I am.

— John David Washington

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

— Diodorus Siculus

We're big fans of balance in storytelling, and we like movies that hit every emotion.

— Anthony Russo