Quotes About Storytelling

Whoever authors your story authorizes your actions.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

For the next seven decades the story of Smith attending these sixty-three consecutive shows has been repeated often, including by me. The trouble is, Mexicana was performed only thirty-five times.

He left the name at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

I'd managed to type more than two hundred consecutive pages about more or less the same characters who stayed more or less in the same place and more or less took part in the same story.

The Wedding Guest here beat his breast,For he heard the loud bassoon.

I pass, like night, from land to land;I have strange power of speech;That moment that his face I see,I know the man that must hear me:To him my tale I teach.

All of these show us the web of relationships that narrative forms, a web that supports and sustains us.

La historia nunca es espontánea. Incluso, rara vez es una cadena de eventos

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. —Anne Lamott

All would say that my tongue tells tales and for a greater man

It is as if Little Red Riding Hood had asked the wolf: "Dear Grandmother, what is the truth for?" And the wolf had replied: "The truth helps me tell you better lies.

Once Upon a time,' the stories would begin ... no particular time, fictional time, fairy-story time. This is a doorway; if you are lucky, you go through it as a child, aurally, before you can read, and if you are very lucky, you become a free citizen of an ancient republic and can come and go as you please.

sometimes lies are more interesting than the truth

Truth is stranger than fiction, after all.

The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story.

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she'd construct a story from it worthy of a novel.

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.

It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.

he's a story i want to know from page one

When well told and well lived by the storytellers, worship, like story itself, offers opportunities for the imagination to be nurtured and transformed.