Quotes About Storytelling

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?" ... Unconsciously, he clenched his fist over his ring. "I live." "Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more -- with one word you will make me weep.

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

Some of us don't like the way you've been telling it.

Someone tell the story, Someone sing the song. Every now and then the country Goes a little wrong. Every now and then A madman's bound to come along. Doesn't stop the story Story's pretty strong.

Narration, after all, isn't just a literary function. It represents the human capacity to tell stories in such a manner that they yield meaning. Television replaced this concerted quest for meaning with a frantic pursuit of wonder.

But I come to stories in the naked hope they will fuck me up .

12/18/89 Calvin asks Hobbes if he'll help him write a book. Calvin says this book will be like historical fiction. He's writing a fictional autobiography. He tells Hobbes it's the story of his life with a lot of parts completely made up. Hobbes asks why he'd want to make up his whole life. Calvin replies that in his book, he has a flame thrower.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

The best kinds of stories are made up out of little bits of truth and stretched into a pleasing shape.

Things live on a whole lot longer when they are living in story and memory." "Okay,

Computer storyboarding programs, such as StoryBoard Quick and StoryBoard Artist

We view dance as a marriage of the representational capacity of language and the rhythmicity of music. This interaction allows people not only to tell stories using their bodies but to do so while synchronizing their movements with others' in a way that fosters social cohesion.

Several years ago, I was getting drunk with four or five of the most powerful sorcerers in the Empire—like you do—when Daymar told a story.

Because here's the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world of here and now one is writing about. The better one understands that world, the more powerful the stories will be.

The only two groups left who tell stories chronologically—at least in American culture—are lawyers and six-year-olds.

I have an idea about building almost like a studio for some of the best Tropfest filmmakers, so they can come together and support and be given space and resources they need to tell great stories year around, so it's not just about the festivals. You know, the sky's the limit with this thing, and I'm still making it up as I go along.

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky' by Lesley Nneka Arimah blew my mind.

What you don't want is for violence and gore to become more important than character and structure. A lot of slasher movies from the eighties were only focused on violence and gore, which robs the human beings in the story of any empathetic reaction from the audience, and instead makes them cheer for the gore.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

We really lived, ate, drank and slept Batman - ideas, characters and stories.

'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.

I would love to have more original material developed. 'Pacific Rim' has made that slightly more possible.

In fact, sometimes when a short film is done well, you wish that it could be slightly longer.