Storytelling Quotes · Page 82

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

— Hannah Kent

“The tale is, in large part, our capital. I was nourished on tales...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.”

— Simone Schwarz-Bart

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

— Samuel Johnson

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

— Polybius

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

— Armie Hammer

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

— Howard Jacobson

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” – Hannah Arendt”

— R.L. Adams

“Words are action, and sentences represent a person’s mental action and aspirations.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Online personal branding is not about self-promotion... it's about transferring your real world reputation into the online world.”

— Maarten Schäfer

My offbeat choices definitely don't get me too much money because they are made in a very restrained budget. We do it…

— Manoj Bajpayee

I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and…

— Meghan Ory

“A folklore study differs from most writing, in that the tale is told in the voice of the individual telling the story,…

— Karen Jones Gowen

“On my book, Fly on the Wall and Other Stories, This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative…

— Namita Gokhale

The interesting thing about 'The Handmaid's Tale' is that everything that happens in it has happened or is happening somewhere in the…

— Reed Morano

Trying to tell a narrative throughline while also doing something that's physically demanding... it's just challenging, and you don't know if it…

— Emma D'Arcy

“Well, if you are to help me with my work, you had better get used to stories without endings. True stories seldom…

— Frances Hardinge

John Cassavetes' films have really altered the way I see film and acting and storytelling and emotion and love, so I see…

— Tatiana Maslany

Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's…

— Jason Isbell

“I think so. There are so many tales, so strange and beautiful and perfect. They are not what are real, but better.…

— Shannon Hale

“It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls…

— Diane Setterfield

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“However, I have also argued for allegory’s positive effects. It is a process that typically takes control away from the author of…

— Helen Morales

“We said ‘pretty women in the sea,’ and that was good enough, because who doesn’t want there to be pretty women in…

— Mira Grant

“Narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetical responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become not just agents of our own lives,…

— Richard Kearney

The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.

— Megan McCafferty

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

— Aneurin Bevan

I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

— Ayshay

“...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...”

— John Geddes

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

— D. H. Lawrence

“And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head.”

— Libba Bray

I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at.

— Mary Mattingly

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

— Jean Houston

“...but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.”

— Félix J. Palma

“A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.”

— George Saunders

“A fairy tale becomes one dream of a reality when a tale has been told by a poet in a dream.”

— Petra Hermans

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

— Patrick Dempsey

“Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.”

— Jo Deurbrouck

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

— Marc Forster

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

— K'naan

“The saddest thing of growing up is people no longer believe in fairy tales.”

— Cao Đức Trọng