Quotes About Storytelling

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

I'm planning on how I want to tell my own story. I feel like my situation and my experiences are unique in some ways.

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

My attitude is, I am not a lawyer; I am not a doctor; I am not a scientist. I am a filmmaker and I want to present what each side is saying and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"

You create a little world when you are making a film and you have to feel that you would want to be a part of that world. I sometimes look at the scripts I get and think 'what are they thinking?'

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.

Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?" continually, until you have a beginning.

The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.

I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!

People need to be inspired. They need to hear and believe a story. If you want them to be self-motivated, you need to engage them.

I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit at her knee, the hearth.

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not.

Are you going to tell me what that was about?" Adam asked as we went back upstairs. "Sometime," I told him. "When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.