Storytelling Quotes

Intuition is truth.

Stories change the world.

Everyone will say I'm insane, but I don't care, Rose. Is it insane to marry the girl I love? A girl with golden brown hair, with gifts of beauty and goodness and storytelling?

Find beauty in the madness.

When your heart is open, your eyes see the beauty that is all around you.

We are artists. When we can’t find the beauty, we create it.

Breathe in the beauty all around you.

Time unfolds beauty, wonder, and mystery to reveal the auspicious tapestry of life.

With grace and beauty, feel.

That which is cool is driven by the soul.

Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.

Crying cleanses the soul.

Close your eyes. Hear the silent snow. Listen to your soul speak.

Give all of life’s oxygen to the fire that is your soul.

Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer.

Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul.

Epiphanies awaken the soul.

If you don’t think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.

Write what speaks to your soul.

A writer’s uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader.

Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway.

Writing is like breathing for my soul.

Storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are.

The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

I love a good 2, 000 year old storytelling fresco!

Art is everywhere.

All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.

Art is life.

Every work of art tells a story.

Style jazzes up your canvas.

Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life.

Remember, when we're lost in a story, we're not passively reading about something that's happening to someone else.

Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.

A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.