Quotes About Storytelling

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights)

My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

Write your own story, preferably in tattoos.

Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.

As we were told about others, so others will be told about us. that is "HISTORY". and the most painfull thing about it is that, it does not repeat itself. it comes onece in life and never again.

We cannot experience the world, even for an instant, without experiencing it through some myth, some narrative structure that sorts out our experiences and gives them meaning to us.

What never yet was heard in tale or song,From old or modern bard, in hall or bower.

And every shepherd tells his taleUnder the hawthorn in the dale.

History is a story we learn, add on our own chapter, and then pass to the next generation.

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

O trabalho de um compositor talentoso é criar expectativas e depois ou satisfazê-las ou frustrá-las. Mas o compositor não pode nem deve tentar um empolgamento constante. Como em qualquer história que se conte, ou mesmo num espetáculo de fogo de artifício, acrescentam-se algumas passagens mais calmas, deliberadamente, para que os momentos importantes causem mais efeito.

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

knowledge of Jewish culture, Jewish symbols, Jewish icons and the tradition of Jewish storytelling. It requires an understanding of what the Jews called "midrash.

To read the gospels properly, I now believe, requires a knowledge of Jewish culture, Jewish symbols, Jewish icons and the tradition of Jewish storytelling. It requires an understanding of what the Jews called "midrash." Only those people who were completely unaware of these things could ever have come to think that the gospels were meant to be read literally.

As my exciting story opens, I am being punched in the stomach. But I guess a lot of stories start that way.

a good story was frequently superior to the truth?

he soon formed this object into the hero of a romance, and determined to observe the offspring of his fancy, rather than the person before him.

They don't take the Bible as a general thing, sailors don't; though I will say that I never saw the man at sea who didn't give it the credit of being an uncommon good yarn. ("Kentucky's Ghost")

The Cinderella Game Kelly Link

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

OF course they did,' she snapped back. 'According to them, you single-handedly won a dozen battles, restored the Spanish throne, and infiltrated Napoleon's inner circle, after which you rode an elephant, wrestled a crocodile, and swam the Straits of Gibraltar.

los oficios creativos provocan dolores aquí o allá, y que hay que saber aliviarlos sin cerrar del todo esa herida de la que nacen las imágenes, los cuentos o la música.

Eu, que mato mesmo quando descrevo a morte como natural, acidental. E mato porque quem conta sempre mata aquilo que originou o conto.