Quotes About Storytelling

Because it makes me happy when the words fall together and the picture comes and the make-believe people do things that delight me. But it's better with you, Constant Reader. Always better with you.

Movies, they were the thing. Movies took you away. You could count on popcorn and happy endings.

Who is that trip-trapping upon my bridge?' Miss Davies spoke in the low, growling tones of the troll in the story. Some of the little ones covered their mouths and giggled, but most only watched her solemnly, accepting the voice of the troll as they accepted the voices of their dreams, and their grave eyes reflected the eternal fascination of the fairy tale: would the monster be bested . . . or would it feed?

How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!

You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.

When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity.

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.

Sometimes stories are too long and hard to tell. That's why Photography exists.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.

Ehi, Clark" disse. "Raccontami qualcosa di bello." Guardai fuori dalla finestra l'azzurro terso del cielo svizzero e gli raccontai la storia di due persone. Due persone che non avrebbero dovuto incontrarsi e che non si erano piaciute molto quando si erano conosciute, ma che presto scoprirono di essere le sole due anime al mondo in grado di capirsi.

I'll explain that in a moment)

Jon Scieszka

I didn't want to make the classic mistake of amateur evolutionary theorists, which is to pick a trait and then ask: "Can I think of a story about how this trait might once have been adaptive?" The answer to that question is almost always yes because reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

The real cruelty of dying was not the way your own obscene dreams went gray. It was the fact that you lost the chance to tell your story.

the saddest thing about being the only one left to tell a story is everybody who cares to listen is gone.

And what about you, Scarlett? You've heard lots about me now. What's your story? Take a chip and tell me all.

La historia dice "así fue"; la novela propone "así pudo ser".