Quotes About Storytelling

Real life is crazier than fiction.

Photography is one big scrapbook of your life.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

All Stories are True.

Last summer, when he thought I wasn't looking, I observed Cubby telling one of the neighborhood six-year-olds that there were dragons living in the storm drains, under our street. 'We feed them meat...and then they don't get hungry and blow fire and roast us.' Little James listened closely, with a very serious expression on his face. Then he ran home to get some hot dogs from his mother.

Bob Woodward, this is Steve Thomas.

They stood on rather unsteady legs and began to bellow out the ribald tale of a penguin who fell hopelessly in love with a humpback whale.

He imagined many years must have passed since a jongleur had chosen to pinch that ample backside.

the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

Green pine trees, cranes and turtles ... You must tell a story of your hard times And laugh twice.

harke n. a painful memory that you look back upon with unexpected fondness, even though you remember having dreaded it at the time; a tough experience that has since been overridden by the pride of having endured it, the camaraderie of those you shared it with, or the satisfaction of having a good story to tell. From hark back, a command spoken to hunting dogs to retrace their course so they can pick up a lost scent. Pronounced "hahrk.

Maybe your self-mythology is no different than any other mythology. It's a story that changes in the telling, evolving over time. Whatever resonates will stay, and what doesn't will fall away. To pick away at the literal truth is to miss the point of it, miss the joy of it. So go ahead and build your myth. Try to tell a good story about yourself that captures something true, whether or not the facts agree.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.