Quotes About Storytelling

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

I don't think of myself as anything more than a person who sits in the living room with you telling you a story. I just happen to be in 16 million living rooms.

I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.

When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.

If I had to compare myself to another artist, I wouldn't. I feel like my lyrics are really strong. I'm good at painting pictures and telling picture stories.

Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

It is important for me to tell my story so that others feel comfortable telling theirs.

I used to make short films even as a kid. I used to have a camera and play around with it. So, I was always interested in the process and telling stories. I've always wanted to direct.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

I remember from my earliest years people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

I love the stuff that makes you laugh and cry. It kind of sucker-punches you a little bit. That's the thing that most interests me as a performer, in addition to telling the most captivating story.

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view.

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

I love being part of a company, and telling a story.