Storytelling Quotes · Page 79

Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.

— Stellan Skarsgard

“Conflict drives the narrative and creates opportunities for personal growth, change, and transformation.”

— Calvin Niles

Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood.

— Alfred Rosenberg

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

— Charles Haughey

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

— Nancy Dubuc

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

— Barry Ritholtz

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

— Peter Morgan

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

— Anonymous

When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create…

— Alfonso Cuaron

So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a…

— Elijah Wood

“A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there is finally no telling exactly…

— Chang-rae Lee

For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all…

— Gabriel Macht

“Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within…

— Jennifer Murgia

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the…

— Calvin Trillin

“You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and…

— Sherwood Anderson

“What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into…

— Walter Burkert

We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when…

— Dan Ariely

“My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in…

— Haruki Murakami

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to…

— Anne Carson

“Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here…

— Margaret Atwood

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak…

— Christopher Meledandri

“A story, whether it be novel, short fiction, screenplay, play or poetry or any form of non-fiction, is like an ecosystem in…

— Andrew Binks

Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap…

— Gene Weingarten

There are plenty of myths out there that are either really expensive to do or incredibly difficult or complicated to execute.

— Grant Imahara

“There was no energy of a narrative in my family, not even the fervour of an elegy.”

— Anne Michaels

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

— William Shakespeare

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

— Jeff Bridges

Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

— Lawrence Block

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

— Paul Ricoeur

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

— Colson Whitehead

“If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell”

— Freeman Wills Croft

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to…

— William Monahan

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

— F. Sionil Jose

“...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.”

— Simon Van Booy

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

— Audrey Hepburn

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

— Eugene O'Neill

“We pay attention to what works with our narrative. We tend to dismiss that which does not.”

— Harlan Coben

Role-playing games are just an organic improvised space for storytelling.

— Matthew Mercer

I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid