Quotes About Storytelling

I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my terrors and helplessness, to make it visible and real in a tangible way, in the way other people's seemed real -- the lives I had read about in books.

Let me tell you a story. I tell stories to prove I was meant to survive, knowing it is not true.

fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies into meaning.?

The stories I made up for myself changed. In the half-sleep that preceded full sleep I began to imagine the highway that went north. No real road, this highway was shadowed by tall grass and ancient trees. Moss hung low and tiny birds with gray-blue wings darted from the road's edge to the trees.

I say, "Talk to me. Tell me who you are, what you want, what you've never had, the story you've always been afraid to tell.

Like the narration of those who preach to those who do not wish to hear, my story has failed to excite anyone. They don't believe me.

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.

It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.

There was once a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

Writing episodically meant that when I finished one episode I had no idea about what the next one would contain. When, in the twists and turns of the plot, some event suddenly seemed to illuminate things that had gone before, I was as surprised as anyone else.

It is all about how human beings construct a narrative out of random events, baseless assumptions, and simple-minded prejudices.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

fiction is founded on truth... unless things did happen, people couldn't think of them.

There you are, Ariadne," said Robin. "The whole plot of your next novel presented to you. All you'll have to do is work in a few false clues, and—of course—do the actual writing.

I should have kept him to the end," said Mrs. Oliver. "In a book, I mean," she added apologetically. "Real life's a bit different," said Battle. "I know," said Mrs. Oliver. "Badly constructed.

By the way, I should like to make it clear here and now that the story will not be a story of South Africa. I guarantee no genuine local colour -- you know the sort of thing -- half a dozen words in italic on every page. I admire it very much, but I can't do it.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

I had no idea what role these popular arts of storytelling and singing would play in my future; I just enjoyed them without thinking about it.

Aristotle is often quoted as saying that a story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. That's true, but I don't think that's the whole story. After all, a dead cat has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

We have to tell stories to unriddle the world

How you frame a photo says everything about the story you're trying to tell.