Storytelling Quotes · Page 78

Whether I'm at the gas station or I be at the store, I be there by myself. I be regular.

— Lil Baby

Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.

— Richelle Mead

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

— Margaret Atwood

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of…

— Michael Ondaatje

Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that - a myth.

— Barry Gardiner

“He read? Oh my God, guys that read were like unicorns. They only existed in fairy tales.”

— J. Lynn

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

— Guillermo del Toro

I don't need to tell stories about how I prepare or manage myself.

— Derek Carr

As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project.…

— J. C. Chandor

“But as she continued and finished her tale, I could tell that her heart was elsewhere, and when she excused herself to…

— Kelly Barnhill

I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the…

— Kelly McCreary

In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“And for some reason, men and women who told the tale often found a need to add almost identical words. The storm…

— Robert Jordan

I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer…

— Brad Pitt

In college, I got an internship at my local station in Honolulu one summer, and I just fell in love with broadcast…

— Emily Chang

“This is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden—if they were hidden, they could not be…

— Roland Barthes

We like layers of character and personality in our storytelling. We like very distinctive, unique personalities interacting with each other. And I…

— Joe Russo

I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the…

— Joseph Campbell

“A short story is not a portrayal of life. When life becomes disconsolate and the fear for the unknown seeps through the…

— Anu Lal

My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich…

— David Milch

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's…

— Stanley Kubrick

I'm an actor, so I'm interested in the pursuit of storytelling and character and challenging myself and expanding my craft. That's not…

— Tatiana Maslany

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a…

— Anonymous

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are…

— Irwin Edman

I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear.

— Nicola Sturgeon

I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous.

— Gillian Flynn

I am a woman, and sometimes that impacts what stories I want to do.

— Rachel Maddow

“We all need fairy tales to forget the tragedies and difficulties of life, even for a short time!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm extremely into Greek Mythology and know almost everything about the classic Greek myths.

— Jinkx Monsoon

There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.

— Komla Dumor

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

— V. S. Naipaul

“...empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011).”

— Mikkel Wallentin Arndis Simonsen Andreas Hojlund Nielsen

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

— Barry Ritholtz

I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.

— Joe Russo

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

— Edgar Allan Poe

I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages.

— Jim Lee

“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in…

— Will Blythe

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

— Karen O

A narrative of fear surrounds the issue of climate change, and it's being used to completely alter our way of life.

— Leslyn Lewis