Quotes About Storytelling

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

Imagination is a gift waiting to be opened. A writer must peel back the wrapping and share that offering with the world.

That great moment when a plot twist appears in your story, one you never thought of, one coming from some hidden place in your mind.

The key elements of storytelling are love, mystery & conflict.

The physicality of storytelling must remain strong.

a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.

Well, sir, it has come through on the pipes that a consignment of cocaine has arrived by irregular means and that a cell somewhere along Tier 5 is to be the centre of distribution.' I made all that up as I went along, like I made up so many of these stories, but the prison charlie was very grateful, saying: 'Good, good, good. I shall pass that on to Himself,' this being what he called the Governor

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

The exaggerated dramatic force employed by Umfraville in presenting his narrative made it hard to know what demeanour best to adopt in listening to the story. Tragedy might at any moment give way to farce, so that the listener had always to keep his wits about him.

I could not remember the story with sufficient clarity.

TWO COMPENSATIONS FOR GROWING OLD are worth putting on record as the condition asserts itself. The first is a vantage point gained for acquiring embellishments to narratives that have been unfolding for years beside one's own, trimmings that can even appear to supply the conclusion of a given story, though finality is never certain, a dimension always possible to add.

For my own part, I always enjoy hearing the details of other people's lives, whether imaginary or not, so that I found this side of Lovell agreeable.

I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.

He, as he told his tale, did not look her in the face, but sat with his eyes fixed upon her muff.

CHAPTER XLVIII THE DINNER AT THE BUSH

He was not witty, nor did he deal in anecdotes.

BUT SOMEHOW, IF YOU want to badly enough, you can always report a story. It feels like magic but it works like carpentry. You build a frame, and then you build on that, and pretty soon you have something to stand on so you can hammer away at a height that was initially out of reach.

Homero, más que ningún otro, nos ha enseñado a todos el arte de forjar mentiras de manera adecuada

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

Every tragedy falls into two parts, — Complication and Unravelling or Denouement.

La historia cuenta lo que sucedió; la poesía lo que debía suceder.

footnotes to a feeling

Good fiction is autobiography dressed in the colours of all mankind.