Storytelling Quotes · Page 85

A successful magazine has to build a myth its readers can believe in.

— Anonymous

As a kid, I loved storytelling, and I liked the way rappers would paint pictures.

— Jensen Karp

“For every culture-hero living out his myth, there must be a witness willing to pass the story on. Then”

— Michael Muhammad Knight

For me, it's just always about trying to tell stories that I care about.

— Rachel Morrison

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, we live our lives based on dead men's tale.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

— Scott Turow

When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.

— Jamila Woods

The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and…

— Bruce Feirstein

“Though a story may begin as a lie, perhaps it can be made true. Perhaps their ultimate power is found in how…

— Matthew J. Kirby

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will…

— Erin Morgenstern

“The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open…

— Carlos Fuentes

“Reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family; and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own…

— M.T Anderson

I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in…

— Shoojit Sircar

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me…

— Joe Madureira

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels…

— Jonathan Franzen

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same…

— Anonymous

“And if we only organize our life according to the principle which teaches us always to hold to what is difficult, then…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The driver watched the young female figure approach within his rearview mirror, unable to discern more than superficial characteristics. As she grew…

— R.J. Lawrence

I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from…

— Bruce Feiler

I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so…

— DJ Spooky

“As one of the most pervasive forms of cultural narrative in industrialized societies, commercial film serves as an extremely powerful vehicle of…

— Rosemary Hennessy

“For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their…

— Jodi Picoult

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I…

— Tommy Lee Jones

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

— Aaron Sorkin

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

— Alan Lee

I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.

— Lucy Walker

“Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.”

— Marcus Borg

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

— Bill Hader

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

— Walter Scott

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

— Jack Kirby

We feel a lot of the future of storytelling is going to be in the VR space.

— Joe Russo

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

— Katherine Applegate

“We write because we need somewhere for the stories in our heads to live.”

— Dana George

Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.

— Jesmyn Ward

“She reminded me that I could write stories,/ could be struck by lightning & live.”

— Jen Currin

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

— Danai Gurira

Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.

— Ben Barnes

The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing.

— Justin Peck

“The quietest ideas often become the loudest stories.” — Christina Collins”

— Christina Collins