Quotes About Storytelling

Life happens between frames. If you don't put down the camera to experience your subject, how can you bring anything uniquely personal to the story? Great photography is just great storytelling. Great storytelling evolves from a life well lived. Live first.

All novels are impossible. We would not wish to read them if they were not. Can you imagine how dull a tale would be if it were completely founded in reality. I declare implausibility a must if the reader is not to be bored to tears.

Professional Goal: To craft well-written, narrative-driven stories that change the way people understand the world. Key Activities Supporting This Goal: • Research patiently and deeply. • Write carefully and with purpose.

I believe half of a writer's job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about another world that entertains you and informs you.

A poet's fiction should at least be plausible.

A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same.

For all their reputation for chattiness and storytelling, the Irish I knew were so skillful with words there was sometimes no need for them at all.

We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive.

I always tried to write a story in such a manner that I wouldn't mind buying it myself.

You're an unreliable narrator, you know that?' 'Is that like the guy who narrates the telenovela on Jane the Virgin?' 'It's when the person telling you the story is maybe not telling you the entire truth. Sometimes it's because they can't see it themselves. But other times it's because they are trying to deceive you.

Like she's singing away her grief, because words are not sufficient. Mom, singing me to sleep. Hannah, singing to tell a story. Bev, singing away her panic attacks.

Every fiction has its base in fact," he tells her.

he starts telling them about our day, embellishing it so that it almost sounds fun. It's how all good travel stories are born. Nightmares spun into punch lines.

Arron Stein, you're the most unreliable narrator I've ever met.

You need to be a good storyteller. When you're at a conference, you should empathize with the developer and tell them a story that they can believe in; that's what makes a talk entertaining. That's the difference between an average developer advocate and a good developer advocate. - Arun Gupta

Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.

But the Troian gestes, as they felle,In Omer, or in Dares, or in Dite,Whoso that kan may rede hem as they write.

Whoso shal telle a tale after a man,He moot reherce as ny as evere he kanEverich a word, if it be in his charge,Al speke he never so rudeliche and large,Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe,Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes new.

A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music

Azdaha were no joke. ... Not much is known about this dragon [the aforementioned Gandarw], except that he apparently had yellow heels. I wonder why that was such an important detail. I mean if I were describing Godzilla, the color of his heels wouldn't be the first thing I would mention.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

A really good story does not answer everything. After all, life doesn't answer everything. There remain ambiguities. There remains room for doubt.