Storytelling Quotes

You can fix anything but a blank page.

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

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

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

We are the storytelling animal.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

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

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.

I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.

Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into more mainstream media!

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

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

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.

For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling.

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.

I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story.

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.

Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.

Is this a kissing book?

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.