Storytelling Quotes
I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid 'us vs. them.
Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger.
The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.
Great stories build relationships and make people care. Those two things are necessary to change anything.
The writer and his reader are both complicit in the act of storytelling. The writer must first leave a part of his soul on the page, like a contagion, which the reader then catches.
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and laughter 'til they bloom, 'til you yourself burst into bloom.
Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.
Stories matter. They shape our lives, expectations, and dreams. They are the warp and weave of our human existence, binding us into a fabric far stronger than any individual element
This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.
Good storytellers are always ready for the next question.
Wish not for treasure you can hold, No gleaming jewels, bright and cold, For finer still than pearl or gold, The treasure of a tale well told...
If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong.
'So what happens next?' 'Everybody dies, and the people who don't get married.' 'Like any other story, then.'
A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.
One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real.
A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.
Online personal branding is not about self-promotion... it's about transferring your real world reputation into the online world.
It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.
and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event
I travel the world. I Take nothing but pictures, kill nothing but time and leave nothing but footprints.
That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?
Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.
It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.
Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.
The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.
And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there's no overlap.
Though a story may begin as a lie, perhaps it can be made true. Perhapsd their ultimate power is found in how they inspire us to action.
In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to.
While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing nature.
Mama always did tell a good story, built a solid background, then deftly lead her engrossed listener through a series of doorways, enticing them in before delivering the coup de grâce.
You bound him to you with your courage and your tales. You hold him to you now. You captured a wild creature when you had no place you could keep him.
Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.
MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps AllREALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time
So there’s a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn’t about how much sense you make, it is about how compelling you are. (interview)
To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.
When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins.
people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.
Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I’m not giving advice. I don’t instruct. At my best, I delight. That’s my job.
Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great
Marketing shouldn't feel like marketing. It should feel like a story.
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.