Quotes About Storytelling

I get a guest on the air, and they're weird or strange, and I help them tell their story. I don't laugh at them. I listen.

All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him about crimes against humanity. Al Jazeera is giving me the opportunity to tell important stories and stories that I want to tell.

I have not told half of what I saw.

The hallmark of a good comedy is that it can make you laugh, but it can also take you to the point where you're in love with these characters, and you want to see them be happy, and you want to feel that emotion for them.

Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.

Garth on making his stories feel real Things like armour, clothes and other small details are very important in building up the reality of the story... I do spend quite a lot of time on things like clothing, armour, weapons and try and make them feel real.

Come, said Tanitha. Come to the Great Hall, and we will lie down with the puppies, and I will tell you a story. One about the Dog with the Wonderful Nose? asked Anya. She tried to smile, but found herself crying instead. But those are for puppies and children. You can never be too old for stories about the Dog with the Wonderful Nose, said Tanitha.

He worried that when he would speak of the past, he would sound and look old, as all ancient storytelling men did.

Alcohol is the gift of any narration, and any writer thrills to the thwop of a corkscrew being pulled.

My great-grandmama told my grandma the part she lived through that my grandma didn't live through and my grandma told my mama what they both didn't live through and my mama told me.

Possibly I was mistaken, but it seemed to me that he went pale. At last he muttered, "It isn't much of a ghost story, I'm afraid, but then I didn't make it up.

what a many-sided thing is the telling of any tale.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

He who repeats a tale after a man, Is bound to say, as nearly as he can, Each single word, if he remembers it, However rudely spoken or unfit, Or else the tale he tells will be untrue, The things invented and the phrases new.

Then the Miller fell off his horse.

Here is ended the Prioress's Tale.

I may not telle you al at ones:

The rest of the story need not be shown in action, and indeed, would hardly need telling if our imaginations were not so enfeebled by their lazy dependence on the ready-makes and reach-me-downs of the ragshop in which Romance keeps its stock of "happy endings" to misfit all stories.

Today, I want to tell you about little Danny Pendejo.

So I am content to tell my simple story, without trying to make things seem better than they were; dreading nothing, indeed, but falsity, which, in spite of one's best efforts, there is reason to dread.