Storytelling Quotes · Page 59

My life is a tale you are my faire I need you plzzz come and rescue me…

— Rohit

As for the heart It needs a beginning The narrative Burden of events

— Fady Joudah

The truth is the Tories don't own Brexit. No party owns Brexit and that includes the Brexit Party.

— Claire Fox

“All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.”

— Margaret Atwood

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

— Kate Forsyth

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

— Anne Waldman

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

— Massimiliano Gioni

I think what happens normally in a narrative film is that the camera constructs the reality.

— Sam Seder

'How to Train Your Dragon,' the first one, was a film I'd seen prior to being approached for the sequel. I don't…

— Kit Harington

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then…

— Bruno Heller

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against…

— Marina Warner

“All narrative begins for me as listening. When I read, I listen. When I write, I listen—for silence, inflection, rhythm, rest.”

— Toni Morrison

When you're telling taut, tight storytelling that has any kind of built-in plot twist elements, you tend to want to stack everything…

— Julie Plec

“I didn’t think that fairy tale was the right term. It all seemed like a nightmare with a few blissful chapters inserted…

— Keary Taylor

Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your…

— Anonymous

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can…

— Dick Wolf

I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“He fills my head with tales from the ancient forests, tales so old that the trees themselves call them legends. It is…

— Maryrose Wood

The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea…

— B. W. Powe

There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth…

— E. L. Doctorow

I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and…

— Marvin Minsky

My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full…

— Lucrecia Martel

I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very…

— James McBride

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may…

— Francis Parkman

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

— Frank Herbert

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

— Tom Petty

Tale as old as time, tune as old as song. Bittersweet and strange, finding you can change, learning you were wrong.

— Beauty And The Beast

“Like most pure fungi narratives, its interpretation and retelling into human terms is uncertain.”

— Orrin Grey

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

— Gilbert Murray

Someone once told there's nothing wrong with fairy tales everyone ends up happily ever after in the end.

— Peyton Sawyer

“Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.”

— Ashley Madau

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

— Neil Gaiman

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

— Regina Spektor

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

— Gilbert Ryle

“I hide away in my room to see Just what stories will come to me.”

— P.B. McIlrath

If I'm doing a daily soap I would like my character to drive the narrative.

— Rupali Ganguly

There is a narrative of 'Washington fighting' because it's interesting and it's drama.

— Katie Hill

“so eager for a fairy tale, you create one where it doesn’t exist.”

— J.A. Huss

I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.

— Travis Kalanick