Quotes About Storytelling

I have so much fun writing for children.

That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.

I believe that things just happen in life, and pretty much after the fact, we make up a story to make it all seem rational. We all like simple stories that suggest a causal chain to life's events. Yet randomness is ever present.

I heart my job. I get to make things up for a living.

Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.

Humans are storytellers. It is our nature to make up stories, to interpret everything we perceive. Without awareness, we give our personal power to the story and the story writes itself. With awareness, we recover the control of our story. We see we are the authors and if we don't like our story, we change it.

If you don't perceive love, if you cannot recognize love, it's because you only recognize the poison inside you. I am responsible for what I say, but I am not responsible for what you understand. I can give you my love, but you can make the interpretation that you are receiving judgments, or who knows? Only your storyteller knows. When we no longer believe our own stories, we find it so easy to enjoy one another.

As artists, we distort the truth and create the most amazing theories; we create entire philosophies and the most amazing religions; we create stories and superstitions about everything, including ourselves. And this is exactly the main point: We create them.

We are all making distinct and separate impressions of this moment. Wherever we are and whatever we're doing, the moment is real but we're telling our own story about it. This is the wonderful magic of the human mind - to turn real things into symbols and Impressions, but we shouldn't forget that the body responds emotionally to our kind of Magic.

The secondary characters are based on people who really exist, but everything I believe about them is a story of my own creation.

And that is the story of the boy who cried Dragon! Of course, when dragons sit around the campire at night or tuck their children into bed, they tell the story of the dragon who cried Boy!

Of course, when dragons sit around the campfire at night or tuck their children into bed, they tell the story of the dragon who cried Boy!

The meaning did not precede the dream; the dream preceded the meaning. So the way to read the tale is to let the imagination carry one along. Not, above all, as a rebus to be decoded.

What is a novel if not a trap for catching a hero?

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I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling.

I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

I'd love to get a chance to talk shop with Joss Whedon. That's pretty high up there on the list.

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.