Storytelling Quotes

If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know y...

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces...

…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story ...

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time....

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebaske...

Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than...

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl...

I’m a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same ...

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making ...

I can see how I could write a bold account of myself as a passionate man who rose from humble beginn...

A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and t...

Storytelling is about two things it's about character and plot.

A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.Th...

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and ...

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to loo...

No matter how shitty things are, you can always get a song out of it.

The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a...

The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ......

Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower...

It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it shor

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lun...

I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and story...

This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'...

The presentation scene itself we skip. It is not a good idea to interrupt the narrative too often, s...

It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so b...

Without desire how is it possible to make a story?

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability ...

I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Moz...

It's easier to make up storiesthan it is to write them down. When I speak, the words come pouring ou...

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We...

Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

People like to separate storytelling which is not fact from history which is fact. They do this so t...

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. ...

I can change the story. I am the story.

Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those thi...

I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.

As usual, I shall tell my story badly; and you, as usual, will think me extravagant.

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but ...

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but ...

Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to rea...

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to redu...

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will...

If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about ...

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many ...

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenl...

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whe...

A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.

Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a ...

When you’re telling a story, you’re trying to connect to people in a particular way … The way in whi...

Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. ...

In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the hist...

To hell with facts! We need stories!

The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, whe...

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shu...

But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully ri...

But I have already told the beginning, so right now it's the middle. And Zeb is in the middle of the...

I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after...

[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a s...

If you remember the pleasure of hearing a story many times, and you will remember that while you wer...

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out ...

Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets.

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

The drinking dens are spilling outThere's staggering in the squareThere's lads and lasses falling ab...

I'm a master of story. Almost a living fiction myself, so resilient am I! Spider-Man beats me down, ...

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories...

A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feeli...

Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit.""Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, h...

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about pa...

Did you know that writing stories down kills them?Of course it does, words aren't meant to be stiff,...

So there’s a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn’t about how ...

Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than y...

If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is al...

The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new...

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't ...

Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are curre...

I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I sus...

Every great love starts with a great story...

I am the unseen. For centuries I have been here, beneath this great city, this metropolis. I know yo...

I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, i...

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories...

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.