Afraid Quote by David Harbour

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them,…

— Ben Marcus

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

— Ben Okri

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu,…

— Margaret Atwood

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down,…

— Salman Rushdie

As storytellers, we tend to want to force-feed everything and have everybody understand everything right away, and we freak out if they don't.

— Brian J. Smith

I feel like if you aren't honest and if you don't let go and ease up off of the narrator, then the story doesn't…

— Jesmyn Ward

I always go into a character thinking, 'If it scares me, I can do it.'

— Omari Hardwick

If you can relate to what the character's going through, the story can be as ridiculous as possible, and people will relate to it.…

— Drew Goddard

Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.

— Mike Nichols

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

— David Mamet

For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from…

— Zadie Smith

In every take, that you're not sure of what they're going to cut and paste together and what the arc or the purpose or…

— Shannyn Sossamon