Storytelling Quotes · Page 66

It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.

— Michael Feldman

“Stories are about endings,’ he’d said. ‘They don’t mean anything unless they come to an end.”

— Paul Cornell

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

— Mason Cooley

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

— Amanda Seyfried

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

— Karen Lord

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

— Patricia McCormick

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

— Anonymous

The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives.

— Guy Maddin

“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales…

— Neil Gaiman

As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge,…

— Mandy Aftel

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word…

— Adam Kirsch

“There was a terminal narrative. It was a story until it stopped being a story and until then they kept wanting to…

— Emily Perkins

I think that there's a sense that procedurals, because they have more of a formula to the storytelling, it doesn't necessarily rate…

— Channing Dungey

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks…

— Chris Abani

“Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions…

— Kate Bernheimer

“Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure--seeing life through the eyes of another.”

— Tobias Wolff

“Some cultures are pragmatic and prod their members to acquire possessions and power. Some are individualistic and urge their members to seek…

— Timothy Keller

As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is…

— Bryce Courtenay

“Fairy tales. That was all she could remember about fairies, and as she tried desperately to recall the ones she'd heard or…

— Emma Bull

A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich,…

— Matthew Woodring Stover

Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you…

— Don Was

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to…

— Adam Ross

“Narratives, stories, help create a deeper sense of shared identity. They generate meaning and foster cooperative actions through neurochemical correlates that kick…

— David Amerland

I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found…

— George Sand

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.

— Andy Serkis

For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.

— Ira Berlin

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

— Bill Sienkiewicz

Peopelnt think there butefuil that is a myth everybody is beautiful

— Anonymous

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

— Gena Showalter

I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

— Bruce Springsteen

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

— Kenzaburo Oe

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

— Carl Jung

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

— Kate Morton

The problem with fairy tales? They teach that as long as you're beautiful you can have whatever you want.

— Anonymous

“narrative bias—a bias in that when given the option, you prefer to give and receive information in narrative format.”

— David McRaney

It is so beautiful that when you watch the film, the marriage between the visuals, the music and the storytelling is seamless.

— Amit Trivedi

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore

— Brian De Palma

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

— Anonymous