Storytelling Quotes · Page 8

My god is narrative filmmaking.

— Darren Aronofsky

Went to the store to get

— Victoria Beryl Zelinski

“had a flair for the narrative”

— John Grisham

Love isn't a fairy tale

— Idk

What are we but our stories?

— James Patterson

Magic is at the core of myths.

— Colin Farrell

“We are our stories.”

— Barry Veret

My shows are not narratives.

— Brian Eno

The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.

— Alexandra Fuller

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

— Mary Garden

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

— Zbigniew Herbert

“A tale spinner's goal is entertainment.”

— John Alexander

I don't consider what I do 'art.' It's 'storytelling.'

— Brian Stelfreeze

“No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.”

— Captain Jack Sparrow

I still believe in fairy-tale, prince charming and

— Mgpsyche

“(what myths of any religion are rational?).”

— John H. Martin

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

— Meg Cabot

I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.

— James Gray

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

— Joseph Jacobs

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

— Graydon Carter

That's what we have with the Old Testament and the New Testament: good storytelling.

— Naveen Andrews

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

— Bryan Brown

The escape to an unchallenging fairy tale can be very nice and I'm all for that, but film can also challenge you…

— Ezra Miller

All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often…

— V. S. Pritchett

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst,…

— Alden Ehrenreich

The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it,…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“I had read fiction, and myths, and looked at pictures on the backs of movies that couldn’t be played anymore. But in…

— George R.R. Martin

I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it…

— Michael Connelly

Movies are a hobby for me. I think storytelling has reached a new level where younger audiences are looking at something more…

— Ronnie Screwvala

It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the…

— Christoph Waltz

“Sto­ries are struc­tured as we wish our lives were, with a begin­ning, a mid­dle, and an end; with mean­ing and pur­pose; with…

— Kim White

“In the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales for the disrobed faceless forms of no position. Tolling for the tongues with…

— Bob Dylan

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the…

— Neil Gaiman

've always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but…

— Walter Kirn

“Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered…

— Jasper Fforde

It's remarkable how a soundtrack can be so important to the storytelling and the experience. I think the music is going to…

— Vin Diesel

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is…

— Bertrand Russell

“I am a book. Sheaves pressed from the pulp of oaks and pines a natural sawdust made dingy from purses, dusty from…

— Lise McClendon