Quotes About Storytelling

I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.

Work hard, love hard, be generous, be thoughtful, be brave, and know the value of sharing a great story, especially if it makes you laugh.

Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

All people are natural story-tellers. We tell a story every time we tell someone what we did that day or share an opinion of our favorite movie. If you want to be a story-teller, good job, you already are one!

Douglas Bell is a debut African American writer with a BS in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a MA in business from Texas A&M University at College Station. Bell currently works as an engineer and once made his living as a magician. The heart of being a magician is about using magic to tell a story.

I wanted to get it all down on paper; a record of what happened----just in case something did happen to me---- and to try and convince myself that I was not living in a state of permanent delusion. But why should you accept this story as given? It's just a story----my story. And like all stories, it isn't, in the pure sense of the word, true. It's just my version of the truth. Which means it is----and isn't----true at all.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

if we do not tell our stories faithfully, they will gradually change over time until they become quite unrecognizable. With a story like this—one that has in the minds of many supplanted the story of the Christ child—we have to remember that St. Nicholas probably would have slugged somebody over it.

Fiction Is My Addiction

We throw in as many fresh words as we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it alive and vital. Virtually every page is a cliff-hanger—you've got to force them to turn it.

And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.

There's the yottle in the bottle, whom I do not wish to keep, but the zillow on my pillow always helps me fall asleep.

How a plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story that no one can beat

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

And maybe now it's about telling the occasional story that I recently believe in and think would be good to put out there into the world. But I look back, that crying taught me how to approach everything in life. Acting or Otherwise.

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

There is really no such thing as the novel," observes novelist Vincent McHugh. "The novel is always a novel—the specific problem, the particular case, the concrete instance.

The preceding chapter tells you how to communicate with your readers. With words. What should you as a fiction writer communicate? Feelings.

Making copy come alive How do you write vividly? You present your story in terms of things that can be verified by sensory perception. Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch—these are the common denominators of human experience; these are the evidence that men believe.

In general, the trick is to bring the past forward into the present, so that you describe what happens in past tense instead of past perfect.

I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.

It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.