Storytelling Quotes · Page 68

Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.

— Hasan Minhaj

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

— Willa Cather

“you know: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF HUGS IS THE ENTIRE REASON I EVER ENGAGE IN ANY NARRATIVE, FICTIONAL OR OTHERWISE??”

— Ryan North

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing.

— Rick Wakeman

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

— Susan Sontag

As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me.

— Tim Gunn

“A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.”

— Roshani Chokshi

“believing in myths is comforting in the moment; in the same way it’s comforting to pretend you can fly when you’re falling.”

— Noah Lugeons

If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative.…

— Gloria Steinem

A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was…

— Linda Hogan

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling…

— Henning Mankell

“There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go…

— Pindar

Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every…

— Alice Hoffman

'Carl Sagan: A Life,' though a riveting tale, tells as much about the all-too-human feelings of jealousy and resentment as it does…

— Carolyn Porco

I love to do fashion. I always put fashion in all of my storytelling because that's what I am, but I'm not…

— Patricia Field

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and…

— Erica Jong

“My people understood that time is an ocean, not a river. It doesn't flow away and pour itself out, done and gone.…

— Laini Taylor

“Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest…

— Alain de Botton

“One thing writers have in common is the need to procrastinate. People don't really understand this, but it's not avoiding work, it…

— Steven T. Seagle

Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's…

— Jason Isbell

John Cassavetes' films have really altered the way I see film and acting and storytelling and emotion and love, so I see…

— Tatiana Maslany

“I think so. There are so many tales, so strange and beautiful and perfect. They are not what are real, but better.…

— Shannon Hale

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls…

— Diane Setterfield

When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.

— Christian Louboutin

“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.”

— Andre Gide

I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.

— Andy Serkis

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their…

— Vincent Massey

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative…

— Jonathan Coe

“The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that:”

— Anonymous

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

— Robert Crais

It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.

— Dianne Feinstein

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

— Margot Asquith

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is…

— Linda Ellerbee

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

— Ian Mckellen

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

— Dean Koontz

The media likes stories. We like narratives. we don't like facts. We don't like justice.

— Will Cain

If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.

— Gary Lutz

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

— Umberto Eco

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

— Louis L'Amour