Quotes About Storytelling

Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.

Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Traumatized children?" mused Ramsay. "When we read the boys 'The Snow Queen,' Patrick put all our glasses in the bin in case he broke one and got a bit in his eye.

For a long time the old man and this young man sit there side by side at the desk, watching and listening as these three musicians use the black and white keys to tell stories that have nothing at all to do with keys' colors.

Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid." I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics.

The brief walk--from the screened-in porch outside to the Hearse--was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.

My best advice is to first write for yourself and stay in your story and just pour all of your good stuff and bad stuff into it. By 'stuff,' I mean all the experiences and pleasures and little hurts that make up a life. Because even (and especially) the really hard experiences are worth having, if you can channel those emotions into something beautiful.

I didn't think of it as lying. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a travelling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics

I will never forget tonight, not for as long as I live. One day, if I'm lucky, I'll tell some young girl all my stories, just like Stormy told me hers. And I'll get to live them again. When I'm old and gray, I will look back on this night, and I will remember it just as it was. Is. We're still here. It's not the future yet.

You don't get to change the story because you feel like it. I'm Éponine; you're Cosette! Don't make me out to be the Cosette!" Her lip curls. "What the fuck are you even talking about?" "Les Mis!" "I

At college, when people ask us how we met, how will we answer them? The shorty story is, we grew up together. But that's more Josh's and my story. High school sweethearts? That's Peter and Gen's story. So what's ours, then? I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter.

At college, when people ask us how we met, how will we answer them? The short story is, we grew up together. But that's more Josh's and my story. High school sweethearts? That's Peter and Gen's story. So what's ours, then? I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter.

I hate when people say that they have something to tell you and they don't just say it. It's like when people say they have a funny story —like, just hurry up and tell the story and I'll decide for myself if I think it's funny or not.

Lucas, I hate when people say that they have something to tell you and they don't just say it. It's like when people say they have a funny story—like, just hurry up and tell the story and I'll decide for myself if I think it's funny or not.

What did you do today, you'd say when you got home from work, and I'd try my best to craft an anecdote for you out of nothing.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

We are capable of generating an almost infinite number of narratives about the same event, and it is the interpretation of the event that matters, not just the event itself.

A good story cannot be denied. Like falling in love, it's irresistible. It hits you before you have time to think. It touches your heart before it reaches your head.

Your job is to learn to create drama. Once you can do that, you can do anything.

There are stories you don't want to tell, and there are stories that scald your brainpan right down to the tongue at the mere thought of uttering. But you can't NOT. Even if you wait until your skull is nothing but a charred and smoking husk, the truth will still be in there, squirming.

For the casual viewer, Kurosawa's films can be an exercise in endurance.

The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.

And then what did you do, Lord Oliver?" Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard.