Quotes About Storytelling

But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Books talk to you for an afternoon. Literature speaks for generations.

I think poetry is the greatest of the arts. It combines music and painting and story-telling and prophecy and the dance. It is religious in tone, scientific in attitude. A true poem contains the seed of wonder...

Epigrams succeed where epics fail.

Quotations can be a comedy or a drama, tell of the whole world or just a small piece of it.

Be cautious what tales you tell yourself — you're writing your own autobiography.

The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Every story has a structure. Most simply, a beginning, a middle, and an end—although, as Bilbo recognizes in The Lord of the Rings, the story never really ends, and there is always something that came before the beginning of any tale we might tell.

My children and I inhabited those stories together. A good story allows you to admit your fears, and hope that you might be a hero in the face of them. I'm not sure why adults so often lose the art of "entering" a story in written form.

If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone's a liar.

He always told his girl, "If only these walls could talk... the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone's a liar." But the walls didn't talk.

Only in the campfire-stoked stories of Boy Scouts, bedtime tales baby-sitters employ to frighten bratty charges, or in the sweet delight of grandpas who never grew up, would the stories live on.

Remembering a narrative alters it.

I feel very strongly that every artist has one central story to tell. The struggle is to tell and retell that story over and over again, visual form, and try to challenge that story. But at the core that story remains the same. It's like the defining story of who you are. -Gregory Crewdson, "Brief Encounters" http://www.gregorycrewdsonmovie.com/

There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitiveand getting away with itis far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun.

One man's daydreaming is another man's novel.

La première qualité d'un écrivain était de savoir captiver son lecteur par une bonne histoire. Un récit capable de l'arracher à son existence pour le projeter au coeur de l'intimité et de la vérité des personnages.Le style n'était que le moyen d'innerver la narration et de la rendre vibrante.

Guillermo Arriaga

Julián había apostado por el «cuente, no cante», como exigía Juan Rulfo a sus alumnos en el Centro Mexicano de Escritores

I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of.

You can indeed die at the margins of a story, but you are as dead as if it were your own tale ending and never told.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

I Drink. I Burn. I Dream. And Sometimes, I tell Stories !