Storytelling Quotes · Page 63

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

— Crystal Bowersox

“Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten.”

— Karen Azinger

“It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.”

— Virgil

I don't care what we're quote-unquote selling; we're about inspiring people through storytelling.

— Mindy Grossman

“No doubt there’s a tale there.’ ‘Indeed, but it’s not relevant.’ ‘Meaning you don’t know it.’ ‘Precisely.”

— Steven Erikson

People make their own narrative, the media makes their own narrative.

— Mark Ingram II

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

We get excited by ideas, and we're more excited by being surprised by ideas than we are in dictating the course of…

— Joe Russo

I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing…

— David Duchovny

The Tories have built a system defined by insecurity - from wages to job contracts to housing to the welfare state. If…

— Owen Jones

We are a million miles from the Tories. While we promote international co-operation and human rights abroad, they pull up the drawbridge.

— Ed Davey

Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought,…

— Larry Bird

I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what…

— Kurt Sutter

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.…

— Alan Garner

“And then I realize I am the writer. I don't mean because I write. I mean because we all write our own…

— Samantha Ellis

I didn't corner the market on great stories. I'm not the only one who can do something like work at a grocery…

— Kurt Warner

“Myth basically serves four functions. The first is the mystical function,... realizing what a wonder the universe is, and what a wonder…

— Joseph Campbell

“Here's a story of a girl Who grew up lost and lonely Thinking love was fairy tale And trouble was made only…

— Joss Whedon

“It's possible to find order in chaos, and it's equally possible to find chaos underlying apparent order. Order and chaos are slippery…

— Gavin Extence

“What is more, as J. R. R. Tolkien reminds us in his great essay on Beowulf, there is a danger that attends rational and…

— Gregory Alan Thornbury

I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction…

— Ron Rosenbaum

I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around…

— Michael Shannon

“But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the…

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

— Lee Child

“Surely she knows --like I do--that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real.”

— Jodi Picoult

I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.

— James Gunn

I think people create MYTH so that they can hide originality of the society.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

— Anonymous

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

— Rachel Cusk

“and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event”

— Tanith Lee

“There are some stories that you don't tell aloud, that you make up and tell silently to yourself.”

— Susan Fletcher

“A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.”

— Jill Talbot

“This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.”

— Adele Griffin

I do think you learn things about genre storytelling, but you also have to be careful not to learn too much.

— David Eick

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

— Dorothy Norman

Along the way, I learned the key to launching a company. It's all about storytelling.

— Gil Penchina

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

— Rick Atkinson

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

— Yvonne Orji