Quotes About Storytelling

I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a story without concern for precision or freshness in the use of language. Some of this storytelling reads as if it were spoken rather than written, stuffed with tired images that pop into the writer's head because they are so familiar. The top of the head is fit for growing hair, but not for generating fine prose.

It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing

be sure you don't stop the story while describing. You are a storyteller, not an interior decorator.

Empathy is, first of all, an act of imagination, a storyteller's art

Me too. I agree fervently. Every film should definitely have a message. Which is true. I mean... take the Lord of the Rings movies- they've got loads of messages. Like Don't lose your ring.

But... we'll always have Paris. I pause, thinking this through. At least, you'll have it. And you can tell me about it.

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.

I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.

The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

I write larger than life. It's what I do.

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

I write fiction""What's fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.

You are validating someone's life by telling their story. Even if it's a sad one.

When people ask me about the definition of a copywriter, I say, "If I become a good copywriter, I will have the ability to bring nonliving people to life.

A good story invites us into someone else's world where we learn, discover commonalities, and leave with compassion and understanding.