Best Storytelling Quotations

426 Storytelling quotes by 356 unique authors

A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas… — Robert McKee
Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph… — Robert McKee
The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling, — Cecil B. DeMille
I love all history because it’s storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty. — Natalie
For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and… — Gabriel Macht
So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such… — Joe Wright
In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls. — Joe Sabia
From American Idol to The Matrix participatory media - where old and new media converge by involving fans - is influencing our culture by creating… — Henry Jenkins
I don’t shout the loudest, and I’m quite shy, which was why I was reluctant to throw myself into the public eye. I love beauty,… — Sarah Burton
Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified… — Henry Jenkins
The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself. — Mike Figgis
I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. — Casey Kasem
If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates to narrative: the… — Christine Jones
I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with… — Stephan Jenkins
Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups. — Marshall Ganz
Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly,… — Alafair Burke
Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing about staff cutbacks… — Jeffrey Zaslow
Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three… — Unknown Author
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told… — Marchette Chute
It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling. — Val McDermid
I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables… — Mary Ann Shaffer
Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling. — Cheyenne McCray
Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves… — Andy Behrman
Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living. — Donald Davis
It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling. — Khalil Gibran

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