Quotes About Storytelling

Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.

At the behest of the filmmakers and/or their estates, the titles of those movies based on true-life stories have been omitted.

Jeder Mensch erfindet sich früher oder später eine Geschichte, die er für sein Leben hält, [...] oder eine ganze Reihe von Geschichten [...].

Do this for someone. Ask someone to tell you his—or her—story. Resist the urge to interrupt or correct. Turn off the television. Log off from the internet. Close your laptop; silence your cell phone. Give the rarest of gifts: your full attention.

Don't characterize loners as aloof or crowd seekers as arrogant. They may be living out their story.

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.

I don't know about lying for novelists. I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being—what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." ? Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.

Try to be a rainbow in someones cloud There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

My audience listened, mouths agape, as I reeled my story before them. Their imaginations had been good, but mine was better. They had been amusing themselves, but I was motivated by the desire to escape.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.

There is no greater agony that bearing an untold story inside you.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. - Maya Angelou

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.

I knew I would be in the story somewhere, Eugenides interjected. Oh no, said Phresine, This was a humble servant. Ouch. Though very courageous. Not me, whispered Eugenides to his pillow.

Tell me a story then...keep me occupied. A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story? Insight, said the king, Go on.

Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word "diagnosis" derives from the Greek gign?skein, "to know") that allows others to recognize our experience and enables us to tell its story

He cried in Toy Story 3, bawled. It was sweet and I liked him like that.

Of course," Carl's father would say, "this is just a story and stories are always a little bit true and a little bit false; we just don't know which is which.

Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

It is far too easy to stay stuck in simply describing, telling one's story over and over again, which can be a way of holding on to grief about the past or holding on to a narrative that places blame on others.

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.