Quotes About Storytelling

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

Un racconto è significativo quando spezza i propri confini con quell'esplosione di energia spirituale che illumina bruscamente qualcosa che va molto oltre il piccolo e talvolta miserabile aneddoto che narra.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

How wonderful, to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, borne away on words. And

Luke had a theological reason for this, for in his view the story he was telling shall not come to an end before the end of all history.

Los persas no necesitan haber vivido el amor en sus propias carnes. En sus cuentos y mitos, incluso en el libro sagrado, el amor está por todas partes.

Clearly we have all the time in the world," she said crossly. "Feel free to start way back with the dinosaurs—just as long as you get to the Carnevares and Alcantaras sometime.

A gifted storyteller should be able to tell their stories in different genres, mediums, and platforms. The art of storytelling is the same since civilization began. Only the way of telling it has changed because of technology. - Kailin Gow on Storytelling

Film is a very intimate medium.

To me, it's so much about doing your homework, going into a situation, getting to know the subject, making them feel comfortable, getting intimate access, getting access to all different aspects of people's lives, so that I am essentially telling an entire story and not just a single one.

Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.

I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films.

To me, it's so much about doing your homework, going into a situation, getting to know the subject, making them feel comfortable, getting intimate access, getting access to all different aspects of people's lives so that I am essentially telling an entire story and not just a single image.

The first album is an introduction, and when people listen to it top to bottom, I want them to know me.

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun... then my work here is done.

I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.

As writers, our job is to try to create, in a fake space, something that feels true. That's just straight-up fiction: Invent a character that doesn't exist; make them seem like they do.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're inventing a world, you're inventing characters. If they're interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie?

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.