Storytelling Quotes · Page 70

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

— Jill Sobule

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

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

— Kate Morton

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

— Carl Jung

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

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

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through…

— Alex Ferguson

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and…

— Tim O'Brien

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had…

— Charles Lamb

“Science fiction and fantasy literature has always been defined by tales of heroism. It is meant to represent humanity at our very…

— Mira Grant

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those…

— Jay Baruchel

I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde…

— Hozier

Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span…

— Michael Franti

I think my dad's influence on me as a writer, or just a creative thinker, is, more than anything, that I grew…

— Gracie Abrams

“The greater White House wholly believed that the story was an invented construct of weak if not preposterous narrative threads, with a…

— Michael Wolff

“I'm no writer, but still I want to record my days. And books have given me all the words I need. I…

— Tiffany McDaniel

“I read the stories I've been told in my own way and make a narrative of them. Narrative is a chain of…

— Siri Hustvedt

“But the moment we reimagine the world as a buzzing hive of individuals with a variety of genders and complicated sexes and…

— Kameron Hurley

“You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender…

— Plato

“When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr.…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“From the cover blurb on the University of Wisconsin Press edition, writer unknown: Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and…

— G. Thomas Couser

“I decided to write a myth." "Have you figured out a topic? A moral conundrum?" "Yes." "What is it?" I heard Jack's…

— Brodi Ashton

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

— Amit Trivedi

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

— Elvis Mitchell

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

— Anonymous

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

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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

— Tim Gunn

“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

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

— Roshani Chokshi

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

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

— Andy Serkis

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

— Rene Girard