Quotes About Storytelling

E]very community insists on what Professor G. J. Renier calls "the Story that must be told" about its own past, and where scholarship decays, myth will crowd in.

Talk away. If you bore us, we have books." With this invitation Rickie began to relate his history. The reader who has no book will be obliged to listen to it.

Scheherazade avoided her fate because she knew how to wield the weapon of suspense –the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.

Mr. Beebe smiled as Miss Alan plunged into an anecdote which he knew she would be unable to finish in the presence of a gentleman.

If thinking wants to think God, then it must endeavor to tell stories.

Ah! Tanr?lar, kendi hikayesini yazabilen ölümlüleri e?itleri gibi severler.

Oysa ben hikayesini ilk kez anlat?rken dikkate al?nmayan insanlar?n aniden ölebilece?inden korkar?m.

?nsanlar?n hikayelerini yazanlar evvela ?unu bilmeli: Kaderini yaz?yorsun yaln?z olacaks?n. Hem de hep.

Tell the story. Make it real for those who refuse to believe that such a thing can happen/has happened/is happening here. Bring the suffering to the attention of those who wallow in willful ignorance. In short, shatter the illusion of innocence at every turn and attack all the shibboleths the country holds sacred.

I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, "Tarzan and the Lost Empire", there are 31 books on my list.

The early Greek mythologists transformed a world full of fear into a world full of beauty.

Awake and asleep the novel is with you, dogging your footsteps. Strange formless bits of material float out from the ether about you and attach themselves to the main body of the story as though they had hung suspended in air for years, waiting.

Me molesta cuando las historias se resuelven como un truco de magia

Certainly, I want to capture the reader's attention from the beginning and hold it until the end: that is half the purpose of my art. The other half must be to tell my story in the most honest way that I can.

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both.

When it comes to skiing, there's a difference between what you think it's going to be like, what it's really like, and what you tell your friends it was like.

Their words seemed to them as idle tales.

We spend our years as a tale that is told.

Today's story writes tomorrow's history

The lie has seven endings.

There was an old womanLived under a hill;And if she's not gone,She lives there still.

As I was going to St. Ives,I met a man with seven wives,Each wife had seven sacks,Each sack had seven cats,Each cat had seven kits:Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,How many were there going to St. Ives?