Quotes About Storytelling

Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic.

Todos los narradores tienen que elegir —explicó el contador de historias—. Algunos envuelven a sus personajes en un halo de desesperación, mientras que otros eligen un aura de esperanza.

A willingness to lose one's self in a story was the first step to learning compassion, to appreciating other cultures, to realizing what possibilities the world held for people who kept at life despite the odds.

Explicar las cosas tal y como han sucedido es lo más aburrido del mundo. Debería de estar prohibido. Yo invento las historias por pura cortesía.

Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.

Ahora que no te escribo cuando me voy. Ahora que estoy más vivo de lo que estoy. Ahora que nada es urgente, que todo es presente, que hay pan para hoy. Ahora que no te pido lo que me das. Ahora que no me mido con los demás. Ahora que, todos los cuentos, parecen el cuento de nunca empezar.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do. I

Every day is different, every day I'm on an adventure. If I get bored, you can bet that in the story I'm writing, bullets will fly.

But that's the nice thing about looking backwards. You can pick out the bits that suit your story and toss the unhappy truths to the wind.

My father had always been an accomplished storyteller; it was his substitute for conversation, which required too much attention to the other person.

Sylvie had read somewhere that the more times a story was told, the less accurate it became. Humans were prone to exaggeration; they leaned away from the parts of the narrative they found boring and leaned into the exciting spots. Details and timelines changed over years of repetition. The story became more myth and less true. Sylvie thought about how she and William rarely told their story and felt pleased; by not being shared, their love story remained intact.

She did horror stories on herself, filling in blanks where I refused to supply information. This meant she wrote the entire script herself.

In film, you can have sad endings.

A family mission statement formed in my head: 'We're a family that tells tall tales to add a little magic to our realism.

I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool.

I write myself into existence by the stories that I tell about my life. I also write with my posture and with my manner of walking and speaking, and I write with words and with my actions.

Speaking a story can be an act of letting in light.

I perceive, with joy, my most valued friend, that the cloud of your displeasure has past away; the light of your countenance blesses me once more, and you desire the continuation of my story: therefore, without more ado, you shall have it.

Now I think it is true to say of the road, and also of God, that it does not move. At the same time, it is everywhere. It has a language, but not one I know. It has a story, but I am in it. So are you. And to realize this is a moment of some sadness. When we are denied a story, a light goes off. I am asking you to study the dark.

M: ... but everytime I start in everytime I everytime you see I would have to tell the whole story all over again or else lie so I lie I just lie who are they who are the storytellers who can put an end to stories

Fiction forms what streams in us. Naturally it is suspect.

The Hmong have a phrase, hais cuaj txub kaum txub, which means "to speak of all kinds of things." It is often used at the beginning of an oral narrative as a way of reminding the listeners that the world is full of things that may not seem to be connected but actually are; that no event occurs in isolation; that you can miss a lot by sticking to the point; and that the storyteller is likely to be rather long-winded.

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

I have an idea for a story. I keep the idea in a special place in my brain and I pull it out every once in a while to examine it, expand it, let it breathe.