Storytelling Quotes · Page 60

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

— Gilbert Ryle

“I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.”

— Sara Sheridan

Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

— Kate Forsyth

Its not about the ones who tell the stories its about those who pass them on.

— Karen Loomis

“But I had to dream. I had to hope. Even if it made me the fool of this particular tale.”

— C. Robert Cargill

“Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.”

— Johann Schiller

I think you always win in storytelling when you let the best creative ideas guide you.

— Peter Billingsley

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

— Stacy Schiff

I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so…

— Stan Lee

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all…

— Jason Blum

Life is like a book.each day is a new page.may your book be your bestseller with adventures to tell,lessons to learn and…

— Anonymous

I do develop characters for songs, and I think of everything as storytelling, in a way. But I don't plan out what…

— Julia Holter

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating…

— Daniel H. Pink

It is what life tales are, questions without answers but taking part in being a tale of your own life directs you…

— Meekness Tapera

Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe…

— Jackie Robinson

Apart from a couple that were just having fun with the concept and making fun of [Donald] Trump - like the one…

— Joss Whedon

Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best…

— Dan Hill

Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston…

— Robert McKee

The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions…

— Adrienne Rich

Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In…

— Melissa Febos

Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek…

— Ken Liu

The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. We are the only creature in the world that does this;…

— Salman Rushdie

“The story hangs in the night air between them. It is very latem, and if father or daugther stepped to the window,…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Obviously I have propagated the occasional myth about myself, because the real me, I'm not worth knowing.

— Keith Allen

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

— Beverly Cleary

“I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring…

— Karen Hines

“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any”

— Yuval Noah Harari

That's what storytelling is. It's excising the demons and taking a look at the hard subjects.

— Kari Skogland

Women bring things to the storytelling of news that is maybe more relatable to the women that are consuming.

— Dana Bash

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

— Rex Stout

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

— Mollie King

What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me,…

— Sarah Stillman

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

— Josh Hutcherson

I'd love to do something like 'A Canterbury Tale,' because I love the English language.

— Martin McDonagh

“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.”

— Chuck Wendig

“Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

— Alan Rickman

The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

— Gregory Crewdson