Storytelling Quotes · Page 80

The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.

— Rod Blackhurst

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the…

— January Jones

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

— Kristen Bell

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

— Sandra Cisneros

I mean, television has really changed a lot, and changed the way movie people think about working in the storytelling business.

— Anna Boden

“Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.”

— Gregory Maguire

That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

— J. C. Chandor

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…

— Paul Auster

After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly…

— David Grann

Oftentimes, as women and women of color, we are put as supporting characters in other people's narratives. With 'Jessica James', she is…

— Jessica Williams

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom…

— Carlton Cuse

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other…

— Adam Rapp

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a…

— Martin Gardner

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support…

— Tim Schafer

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were…

— Michel Hazanavicius

“At first he told them that everything was just the same, that the pink snails were still in the house where he…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought…

— Ripley Patton

“Here's a story of a girl Who grew up lost and lonely Thinking love was fairy tale And trouble was made only…

— Joss Whedon

“It's possible to find order in chaos, and it's equally possible to find chaos underlying apparent order. Order and chaos are slippery…

— Gavin Extence

I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction…

— Ron Rosenbaum

“What is more, as J. R. R. Tolkien reminds us in his great essay on Beowulf, there is a danger that attends rational and…

— Gregory Alan Thornbury

“But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the…

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around…

— Michael Shannon

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

— Cary Fukunaga

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

— Isak Dinesen

We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it.

— Ruth Ware

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

— Alain de Botton

“Children need fairy tales because they can see only black and white.”

— Teresa Jordan

“Sometimes it is necessary to come up with a myth that people can blame, rather than the cold hand of unfeeling fate.”

— Matthew Mather

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

— Carlos Castaneda

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

— Margaret Atwood

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

— Edward Norton

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

— John Dufresne

I think you always need to take new, big risks from a storytelling point of view.

— Chris Chibnall

“Remember that stories are more than just words, more than fairy tales. They are magic.”

— Valya Dudycz Lupescu

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

— Joseph Campbell

“You are every fairy tale that I dreamed of and the forever after that I never dared to hope for.”

— Sydney Landon

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

— Stephen Cole

I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.

— Max Lucado