Storytelling Quote by David Knopfler Download Open image “Trust the tale, not the teller.” — David Knopfler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Storytelling Trust
People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller. — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, trust is something born only out of necessity. A curtain we draw to hide the ugly truth in order to convince ourselves that… — K.B. Ezzell Copy Share Image
Never trust someone who will just get up and tell you another person's story or secrets, cause they'll share yours just the same. — Christon Henry Copy Share Image
Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better. — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
I work in the margins. The margins are where you'll find the nice people. You'll find real friends. You'll find honesty. You'll find integrity.… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting. — David Knopfler 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
