Storytelling Quotes · Page 89

“He read? Oh my God, guys that read were like unicorns. They only existed in fairy tales.”

— J. Lynn

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

— Guillermo del Toro

I don't need to tell stories about how I prepare or manage myself.

— Derek Carr

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are…

— Irwin Edman

I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear.

— Nicola Sturgeon

I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous.

— Gillian Flynn

I am a woman, and sometimes that impacts what stories I want to do.

— Rachel Maddow

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

— Jeff Bridges

We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating…

— Peter Brooks

Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

— George Steiner

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest…

— Annie Dillard

“There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will…

— Aprilynne Pike

“The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into…

— Hannah Hart

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives…

— Joe Scarborough

“This is a tale of woe. This is a tale of sorrow. A love denied, a love restored, to live beyond tomorrow.…

— Abi Morgan

“In older myths, the dark road leads downward into the Underworld, where Persephone is carried off by Hades, much against her will,…

— Terri Windling

“The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“News organizations are coy about admitting that what they present us with each day are minuscule extracts of narratives whose true shape…

— Alain de Botton

We like layers of character and personality in our storytelling. We like very distinctive, unique personalities interacting with each other. And I…

— Joe Russo

I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the…

— Joseph Campbell

“A short story is not a portrayal of life. When life becomes disconsolate and the fear for the unknown seeps through the…

— Anu Lal

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's…

— Stanley Kubrick

Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

— Lawrence Block

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

— Colson Whitehead

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

— Paul Ricoeur

“If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell”

— Freeman Wills Croft

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to…

— William Monahan

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

— F. Sionil Jose

“...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.”

— Simon Van Booy

“Conflict drives the narrative and creates opportunities for personal growth, change, and transformation.”

— Calvin Niles

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

— Charles Haughey

Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood.

— Alfred Rosenberg

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

— Barry Ritholtz

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

— Nancy Dubuc

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

— Peter Morgan

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

— Anonymous

There are plenty of myths out there that are either really expensive to do or incredibly difficult or complicated to execute.

— Grant Imahara

“There was no energy of a narrative in my family, not even the fervour of an elegy.”

— Anne Michaels