Storytelling Quote by Cormac McCarthy Download Open image ““where all is known, no narrative is possible.”” — Cormac McCarthy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Storytelling
“But know this. All is speculation under the sky. All myth, all religion, all philosophy, all history - is lies.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Everything has a story,a history or past Nothing ever just happens, Find that story...” — Shawn Alsager Copy Share Image
“There's not that much known, but there's a lot you can write about what's not known, why it isn't known and who doesn't know… — Richard Ellis Copy Share Image
“All the knowledge that ever existed, or ever will exist, is already out there in the air. All you need to do is tune… — Victor Wooten Copy Share Image
“Between the lines of every story there is another story, and that is one that is never heard and can only be guessed at… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal view of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They set forth in a crimson dawn where sky and earth closed in a razorous plane. Out there dark little archipelagos of cloud and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Nothing. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He lives in a room above a courtyard behind a tavern and he comes down at night like some fairybook beast to fight with… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Ultimo hombre. Last man standing, must've been one. Where'd he go?” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black immobility these… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image