Quotes About Storytelling

If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.

People in America think of it as a sad and downtrodden place, and I guess it could be, but it's not because that's not who Cubans are. In Cuba, you get a good story every day you go out walking. People are so funny.

These days, you don't need a song or glamour to make your film work. It is all about a good story.

If a star film does not have a good story, it will not run. This will make stars choose good scripts consciously.

A good story isn't preachy; a good story is always entertaining.

I just wanted to be part of telling a good story that shocks people.

My sensibility is such that I automatically get drawn to films that have a good story, good characterization.

At the end of the day, whether it's on film or on stage or for a crowd of however many at Kenwood House, my job is to make sure people have a good time and come away with a feeling and a story.

If you're a good writer, you don't have everybody shouting in every scene.

Everything that I have known You'll write to me to remind Me of, and likewise I shall do The whole past I'll recount to you

And Ningauble began to sort out in his mind the details of the Mouser's story, treasuring it the more because he knew it was an improvisation, his favorite proverb being, He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

La vida no es la vida que uno vivió, sino la que uno recuerda y cómo recuerda para contarla

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

Je lisais … comme toujours lorsqu'on est emporté par la magie d'une histoire bien racontée ou la simple ivresse de se reconnaître à travers des mots plus habiles que les siens.

My grandmother warned that too much reading would ruin my eyesight, but I couldn't hear her over the chatter of characters.

We can't be free until we can tell our story, and only by telling it convincingly can we each do our bit to help the world grow up.

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce. Telling to win through purposeful stories is situation, industry, gender, demographic, and psychographic-agnostic. It's an all-purpose, everyone wins tool.

For me, the wins and losses in pro wrestling never mattered. The thing that matters is the time on television to tell that story. If you have a two-segment match on television, whether you win or lose, both people's brands win with a great match.

It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures... I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with 'Once upon a time.'

'Winter's Bone' really suited having a lower budget. It would be so hard rolling into a rural setting, a place where people are poor, and to be thinking you've got $10 million to make a piece of entertainment.

In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.

One of my biggest influences, of course, is David Simon and his work on 'The Wire.'

I watched season four of 'The Wire.' They have subtle performances that they do through their eyes. You could watch season four with the audio off and still understand what's happening through their eyes.

'The Sopranos,' 'Lost,' 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Wire' - those are my all-times.