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Quotes About Storytelling

I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.
~ Caroline Leavitt
I love to read aloud.
~ Cornelia Funke
People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.
~ David Alan Basche
I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.
~ David B. Coe
I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.
~ David Chase
My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.
~ David McCullough
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
~ David McCullough
I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.
~ David Morrissey
I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'
~ David S. Goyer
I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.
~ David Schwimmer
I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.
~ Dennis Lehane
I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.
~ Dolly Parton
I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.
~ Dolly Parton
TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where, if you're successful, you go on for years.
~ Doug Liman
Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture.
~ Drew Barrymore
I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.
~ Elizabeth Banks
I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.
~ Eric Balfour
I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.
~ Felicia Day
Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that.
~ Freddie Highmore
If we're going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy.
~ Colleen Hoover, November 9
Never compare your love story to those you watch in movies. They're written by scriptwriters, yours is written by God.
~ Efren Peñaflorida Jr.
Perfect people make for boring novels.
~ HL Balcomb
In his speaking of things and people, and especially of battles, he spoke as if he had been present at them all.
~ Bram Stoker