Quotes About Narrative

I don't think that I can tell any story better than the story of my own country, than the stories of my own countrymen.

Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.

Whether I'm working with a Top 40 artist or crafting my own music, it goes back to one thing: telling a powerful story and having that story resonate with people.

In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.

I'm a fan of creative writing and telling stories.

The criteria for writing mythological books are different. Because the results are known, the end is known. Somebody has created that limit and you have to play within that limit.

In the corporate media, there is almost no criticism of corporations or American empire.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

For the Left, victimhood has long carried social currency.

If you tell your story well, it can help attract customers; it can help people understand your business better, and you are more approachable as a business and a company.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

I think screenwriters, I think editors in the cutting room - they have a lot of responsibility that we don't think about, but they could cut the coverage of an Asian person to focus on a white person because, unknowingly, they think that white person has more to say or is more interesting.

When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.

Acting, music, comedy are all just delivery systems to communicate ideas and stories.

It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful use of the Book of Chronicles has to tell about the tabernacle.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.

I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down.

For me, any story I tackle begins with the human relationships and not the plot.

I want stories that tackle things.

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

We build camera rigs tailored specifically to the story we're trying to tell or the shot we're trying to capture.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So Harry's the hero, right. But he's tainted with evil. There's a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It's well balanced.