Quotes About Storytelling

This is who I am. This is who I have always been. I am in pain. I am always in pain. But I always find a way to the story. And I always find my way home.

But epics are rarely honest, and honesty should never be epic.

Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

If it makes you feel any better, this isn't my first apocalypse. There is hope." – Sasha "Obviously the world survived." – Abigail "Yeah, not really. It kind of blew everything back to the Stone Age. The good news is, people are resilient, and that which doesn't kill you merely serves as a cautionary tale for others. It also makes one hell of a bedtime story, especially if the Crypt-Keeper's your audience." – Sasha

I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the only thing we have that can trump life itself.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that.

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction

Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.

When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but I feel that I did learn a lot about my parents.

Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.

Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it's possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.

It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life conversation seldom is.

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.