Storytelling Quotes · Page 67

There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.

— Elvis Mitchell

“The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.”

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

I'm ultimately drawn to film many kinds of stories if they are sort of about unlocking the secrets of our human potential.

— Karyn Kusama

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

— Lydia Davis

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

— Italo Calvino

“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social…

— Pamela Yates

Diversity in sound, just like diversity in storytelling, is a great thing.

— Bear McCreary

“Everybody loves a good story, but good storytelling doesn't come easy to everybody. It's a skill that takes a lifetime to master.…

— Austin Kleon

“Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as…

— Neil Gaiman

“The folly and the glory of the world... the wild, the wise and the wicked... the hero, the madman, the wanderer and…

— Brian Holguin

More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses…

— Reese Witherspoon

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no…

— William Shakespeare

In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed…

— Dinaw Mengestu

In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption,…

— Kate DiCamillo

I always like things to be as complicated as possible. I don't like an easy ending. I don't like when all the…

— Miriam Shor

The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy…

— Lorrie Moore

“. . . I understand that I was writing (recording) as well as seeking to right (to rectify) the wrong, and now,…

— Sandra M. Gilbert

A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering…

— Bruno Bettelheim

Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.…

— Joseph Campbell

Ideally, writers and narrative designers should be included much earlier in the process, where they can be of most benefit. However, although…

— Rhianna Pratchett

“And if we only organize our life according to the principle which teaches us always to hold to what is difficult, then…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same…

— Anonymous

Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

The Tories have long since abdicated any pretension of principled global leadership.

— Emily Thornberry

If fairy tales doesn't exist it doesn't matter, cause I will make my own fairy tales with modern way

— Anonymous

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.

— Seth Godin

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs.

— Jill Sobule

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

— Sherwood Anderson

The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.

— Rene Girard

“Till you outgrow white narrative, you'll never learn the human story.”

— Abhijit Naskar

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

— Terry Brooks

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.”

— Jane Alison

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

— Karla Souza

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

— Joe Wright

“A stranger lies behind my eyes, I know not what he wants; sells me dreams, tells me tales, then with the truth,…

— Akash Mandal

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

— Mary Higgins Clark