Storytelling Quote by John Oakes Download Open image ““Dead men did tell tales if you knew how to listen.”” — John Oakes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Storytelling
“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, we live our lives based on dead men's tale.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The dead always have stories to tell. They just need the living to listen.” — Jennifer Latham Copy Share Image
“Dead. I had to be dead. But dead men don't think about death. What do dead men think about? Dead men don't think. I… — Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I tell you, my idea of a ghost is something quite different. Dead men rise up never – read even your poets. Ghosts breed… — Leland Hall Copy Share Image
“I had been brought up to believe that you never told tales, and that you should fight your own battles” — Anonymous 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
