Storytelling Quotes · Page 73

“theory includes a transcendent idea, as do all great world narratives.”

— Neil Postman

Many Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative.

— David Kim

Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

— Robert Pollok

If you truly believe that you write the tale of your own life, then the end is up to you now.

— Ramandeep Singh

“Being dead is highly overrated. It’s no fun at all." -- Mythe: A Fairy Tale”

— P.J. Gordon

I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

— Roberta Williams

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

— James Elroy Flecker

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

— Will Smith

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness…

— Ann Druyan

I have had issues in the past with the characters and the limitations of the characters and the structure of the narratives…

— Viola Davis

The excitement of wading into 'reality' and just finding out what happens - and then the challenge of selecting those things that…

— Jonathan Demme

I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions…

— Steven Spielberg

“The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into…

— Hannah Hart

I love 'Peter Pan' to death. It's one of the most influential pieces of storytelling in my life. It made a huge…

— David Lowery

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives…

— Joe Scarborough

“This got me thinking about endings and how the final moments of a story can color our entire perception of a narrative.…

— Crystal Cestari

If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or…

— Elif Batuman

“Jesus and institutional religion are on a collision course, and those who go with Jesus will find more adventure, freedom, and religion-bursting…

— Ronnie McBrayer

The Tale Of Love On my fading day, I may Sneak in, to throw a tale Of, what words cannot touch, And…

— Anonymous

You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how…

— Joseph Campbell

As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was always very interested in the storytelling decisions that went into directing. It just held this real allure for me. You…

— Fred Savage

“They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

— David Burnett

“If you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict”

— Antonio Nuñez Lopez

I don't care what we're quote-unquote selling; we're about inspiring people through storytelling.

— Mindy Grossman

“No doubt there’s a tale there.’ ‘Indeed, but it’s not relevant.’ ‘Meaning you don’t know it.’ ‘Precisely.”

— Steven Erikson

People make their own narrative, the media makes their own narrative.

— Mark Ingram II

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

— Lee Child

“Surely she knows --like I do--that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real.”

— Jodi Picoult

I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.

— James Gunn

I think people create MYTH so that they can hide originality of the society.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

— Anonymous

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

— Rachel Cusk

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

— Ian Mcewan

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

— Crystal Bowersox

“people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.”

— Chester Elijah Branch