Storytelling Quotes · Page 69

“When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.”

— Christy Hall

As soon as I left Georgia, my narrative became about taking risks and the fight for creative bedroom artists with no platform.

— Kevin Abstract

Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

— Danielle Trussoni

Before you can challenge a received narrative about the past, you should be expert in its established contours.

— Heather Mac Donald

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. Theyre inexpensive and easy to procure.

— Robert Penn Warren

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

— Patrick Ness

“When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.”

— Sharon Salzberg

I love all that stuff like 'Tales From The Crypt,' 'Twlight Zone,' and 'Amazing Stories.'

— Dan Fogler

[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter…

— Doris Lessing

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the…

— Terri Windling

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

— Joe Sabia

I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure…

— Jeff Probst

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and…

— Khaled Hosseini

“There are a colorful rainbow of events that make up one sentence in every narrative. It takes the literary in its entirety…

— Deanna L. Lawlis

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines…

— Donna Tartt

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the…

— Jonathan Dee

“You walked into this village with a thunder tiger beside you. You have slain demons with your own hands. Are the old…

— Jay Kristoff

We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is…

— Marilynne Robinson

“There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be…

— Mitch Glazer

“I believe, when it comes to storytelling ... that mistakes are often the beginning of the best ideas. After all, a mistake…

— Orson Scott Card

“The vigor I lacked for physical activities became incandescent when, pen in hand, I filled those pages with invented stories. Sometimes they…

— Anonymous

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that…

— Diana Wynne Jones

I used to think about video games, "This is clearly an amazing, new narrative medium, and it's going to be mind-blowing when…

— Alex Garland

I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales…

— Stanley Kubrick

“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

— Danai Gurira

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

— Walter Benjamin

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

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

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

— Italo Calvino

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

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