Storytelling Quotes · Page 84

Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

— Rollo May

“ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.”

— FILM CRIT HULK

Any question about narrative storytelling is answered by Dickens.

— Steven Knight

There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.

— Malachi Kirby

“Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.”

— Lloyd Jones

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

— Steven Spielberg

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Not every tale has a happy ending. In fact, many of them are grim.”

— Chanda Hahn

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that…

— Paul Ricoeur

There's something magical about making films. But theater, where it all started for me, makes you better at the craft of storytelling.

— Mike Faist

“All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale…

— M.J. Chrisman

'Black Mirror' obviously has its own universe, with a very strong fingerprint and strong themes, and I was intrigued on reading. It's…

— Max Richter

Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of…

— Cormac McCarthy

“of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored…

— Tudor Parfitt

Film is all about telling stories, and telling stories is the thing that has pushed forward humanity from the beginning of storytelling.

— Nia DaCosta

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to…

— Adam Ross

“Narratives, stories, help create a deeper sense of shared identity. They generate meaning and foster cooperative actions through neurochemical correlates that kick…

— David Amerland

I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found…

— George Sand

A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering…

— Bruno Bettelheim

The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy…

— Lorrie Moore

“. . . I understand that I was writing (recording) as well as seeking to right (to rectify) the wrong, and now,…

— Sandra M. Gilbert

Ideally, writers and narrative designers should be included much earlier in the process, where they can be of most benefit. However, although…

— Rhianna Pratchett

Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.…

— Joseph Campbell

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

— Brandon Sanderson

“In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great informing myth, familiarity equaled timelessness”

— David Foster Wallace

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

— Edmond de Goncourt

Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally…

— Michel Ocelot

“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.”

— Daikichi Irokawa

“Stories don't always have to end happily.. Sometimes it's just enough that they end.”

— Terri Cheney

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

— Sarah Dessen

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

— Sondre Lerche

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

— Jonathan Hickman

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

— Nick Cave

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with…

— Neil Gaiman

With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling.

— Nick Nolte

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

— James Genn

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

— Delia Sherman

A friend knows all of your best stories but a sister has been through all of them with you...

— Anonymous

“No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.”

— Mark Twain