Quotes About Storytelling

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So this is where I choose to stop. More things are still going to happen, of course, some good, some bad. Some things never get any better. When people die they stay dead. None of us knows why we love, or why we stop loving, or why everyone we love we lose.

A happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

He finished his story with a little facial shrug, part Yankee modesty, part genuine perplexity. As in, how did that happen?

In the tall tales told by firelight there was always a brief and laconic conversation.

But because Lowrey's stories were usually very long. He fancied himself a raconteur. And he liked background. And context. Deep background, and deep context.

Looking back, I have to laugh. You know why Martin Bligh was strenuous? Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!

and one of those interpretive historical markers your aunt reads aloud while nobody listens

Let's hear it again! The sweetest sound your conversation partner can hear from your lips when you're talking with a group of people is Tell them about the time you . . .

It probably isn't coincidental that so many of them are the work of writer-directors who are passionate about telling their stories—as opposed to journeymen who are simply carrying out an assignment

Never underestimate the power of fiction to tell the truth.

And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, The rest next time-- It is next time! The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland

And the Gryphon added "Come, let's hear some of your adventures." "I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning," said Alice a little timidly; "but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

CHAPTER 1. Down the Rabbit-Hole CHAPTER 2. The Pool of Tears CHAPTER 3. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale CHAPTER 4. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill CHAPTER 5. Advice from a Caterpillar CHAPTER 6. Pig and Pepper CHAPTER 7. A Mad Tea-Party CHAPTER 8. The Queen's Croquet-Ground CHAPTER 9. The Mock Turtle's Story CHAPTER 10. The Lobster-Quadrille CHAPTER 11. Who Stole the Tarts? CHAPTER 12. Alice's Evidence ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Go on, darling," she said, batting her lashes. "Tell them the rest." "Riiiight," Sam said, suppressing a smirk.

There is no greater power on this earth than story. The Diviners by Libba Bray page 407 paragraph 4 sentence 1

Where is the character coming from? What's motivating the character? What's the central conflict? Who's the antagonist? This is Act One development.

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.