Quotes About Storytelling

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life.

I write to breathe life back into memory.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

Remember that very few stories are of great interest without the rustle of a skirt.

Fiction is the history of the obscure.

linear narrative was not doing a very good job representing life as I experienced it,

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.

Children's books, even good picture books, are much richer than ordinary home or classroom conversation

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

This is where the pivotal events of my childhood unfolded, while I ate banana and root beer Popsicles, two by two, tucking the sticks neatly under the skirt of the chair. It's where Sunnybank Lad met Lady, Ken met his friend Flicka, Atlanta burned, Manderley burned, Lassie came home, Jim ran away, Alice got small, Wilbur got big, David Copperfield was born, Beth died, and, on an endless gloomy winter afternoon, Jody shot his yearling.

Fiction's nice. Fiction lets you select and simplify.

Vossignoria, osservi bene, vossignoria: la verità istantanea di un fatto, la gente poi la racconta, e nessuno ci crede. Pensano che è un falso raccontare. Adesso, io, io so come è tutto: le cose che accadono, è perché già si trovavano pronte, in un'altra aria, nella radice dell'unghia: e di fatto tutto è gratis quando succede, nell'ordinario di un momento.