Storytelling Quotes

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.

I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

Everything has its cycle. I think it's appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on.

An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.

I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

"The Lucky One" is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

It is a great vehicle for storytelling, especially for a certain kind of exhaustively reported, painstakingly fact-checked, and beautifully produced narrative.

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.

The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

I think it's very important for any actor to eventually produce, and create the projects they want to create. I believe it's all a part of the same art form, which is storytelling.

I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.

Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process.

Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my story.

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

Sci-fi has just become an effects-fest, and the story has taken a back seat to all that eye candy. To me, that's not really storytelling; that's just showcasing the latest gadgetry.

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.

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

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.