Quotes About Storytelling

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the act of turning a page.

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrantgypsy life,To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughingfellow rover,And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the next thing happened.

OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.

Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

Sometimes people have a lot to lose by telling stories in certain ways, so they work very hard to hide the things that don't fit with their views of themselves,

But ends are also beginnings, you know. Every single story has a beginning at its end.

I think what Vincent wanted was for me to find him in his words, even between the lines. Then he wanted me to write him a story he could live in just as I had once told him I might.

Elizabeth Strout

So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.

Después resulta fácil continuar, porque si en la realidad hay muchas cosas que suceden por azar, en la ficción casi todo discurre según reglas lógicas.

hay un ejercicio fascinante, a medio camino entre la literatura y la vida: visitar lugares leídos en libros y proyectar en ellos, enriqueciéndolos con esa memoria lectora, las historias reales o imaginadas, los personajes auténticos o de ficción que en otro tiempo los poblaron. Ciudades, hoteles, paisajes, adquieren un carácter singular cuando alguien se acerca a ellos con lecturas previas en la cabeza.

We relate to and remember stories better than we do numbers, but storytelling can lead us into fantasyland quickly

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Quiero que en las palabras que escribes haya algo que me pertenezca. No te estoy dictando un cuenticulario de nimiedades. Historias de entretén-y-miento.

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

Some have in readiness so many tales and stories, as there is nothing they would insinuate, but they can wrap it into a tale; which serveth both to keep themselves more in guard, and to make others carry it with more pleasure. It is a good point of cunning, for a man to shape the answer he would have, in his own words and propositions; for it makes the other party stick the less.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about it.

If there's something you want to say or talk about, then that's what rap is all about - talking about your own experience.

B.I.G. was like the Alfred Hitchcock of rap. Like, this dude's story form was so nuts.

I rap about life in general, particularly my life, unless telling a story.