Quotes About Storytelling

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

All Stories are True.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.