Storytelling Quote by Jill Talbot Download Open image ““A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.”” — Jill Talbot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Storytelling
“I am broken the way most writers are, stories leaking through the cracks.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Some events are so harrowing, they either shape who we become or we move past them. They either break us entirely, or we pick… — Rachel Thompson Copy Share Image
“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure--seeing life through the eyes of another.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something about the world.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The first time I walked through the spacious house, I didn't see possibility or a new start. I saw a big, empty space. These… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel like I'm… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
There's a moment in Sarah Manguso's The Guardians when she writes, "I try not to make anything up, and I fail every time." I… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“I think language beautifully full of the poetry of immanent clarification of some small pinprick of what living might mean. Fuck. Why else would… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“write down all of the things out in the world that have arrested your attention lately, that have glimmered at you in some resonant… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“Everyone now, not just writers, creates a written, published persona on a daily (hourly) basis. Artifice abounds.” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“metawriting can be viewed as "the act of doing something outside of the game in order to impact what is actually occurring in the… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“I like it when art presents a paradigm shift, when it forces me to confront my assumptions, when it asks, "Why this way and… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each story or… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“WHEN IT WAS DECIDED (When was that again, and by whom?) that we were all supposed to choose between fiction and nonfiction, what was… — Jill Talbot 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
