Quotes About Storytelling

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to.

Now he could work her likeness into any story of his choosing. Now he could fight dragons for her. And now he could kiss her again.

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.

You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat listening, I did not think he got the point. He was too young and so was I. A thing so complete has its own beauty. I shall not try to emphasize the point. I am only explaining why I was dissatisfied then and have been ever since. I speak of that only that you may understand why I have been impelled to try to tell the simple story over again.

We poor tellers of tales have our moments too, it seems. Like great generals sitting upon horses upon the tops of hills and throwing troops into the arena, we throw the little soldier words into our battles.

You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat listening, I did not think he got the point. He was too young and so was I. A thing so complete has its own beauty.

Accountability can mean letting people tell their account, their story.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.

In a way, like Scheherazade to King Shahryar, I told stories to death so that it would spare my life and my images, stories that seemed to never end.

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