Quotes About Storytelling

The difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one is... A Northern one starts 'once upon a time,' while a Southern one starts 'y'all ain't going to believe this shit.

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

And, as a mere matter of ficfect, I tell of myself how I popo possess the ripest littlums wifukie around the globelettes globes (...)

Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it.

He had tales of distant countries.

Funny how ye tell people a story to make a point and ye fail, ye fail, a total disaster. Not only do ye no make yer point it winds up the exact fucking opposite man, the exact fucking opposite. That isnay a misunderstanding it's a total whatever.

Clearly I missed the story, I muttered.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

Listening to a story told by Clete Purcel was like building the pyramids with your bare hands. I twirled my finger, trying to make him finish.

You are far too stolid and unimaginative, Watson, to invent a tale like that.

Storytellers do not convert their listeners; they do not move them into the territory of a superior truth. Ignoring the issue of truth and falsehood altogether, they offer only vision. Storytelling is therefore not combative; it does not succeed or fail. A story cannot be obeyed. Instead of placing one body of knowledge against another, storytellers invite us to return from knowledge to thinking, from a bounded way of looking to an horizonal way of seeing.

Okay, that so did me in. Mr. Rock being all emotional? Expressing his feelings? p. 12

When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

Just because life is hard and always ends in a bad way doesn't mean that all stories have to. Even if that's what they tell us in school and the New York Book Review.

Write about us," Robinson urged. "Tell our story." And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.

I'm always pretending that I'm sitting across from somebody. I'm telling them a story and I don't want them to get up until it's finished

When I was growing up, my mom used to tell my sister and me about a leprechaun with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But she never mentioned a Russian Neanderthal with a bag of diamonds at the end of a bloody trail in a train station

The day, and it was a day, that writing started to be fun for me, the day things began to really click, was the day I stopped trying to write sentences and started writing stories.

Don't live a life you don't want to talk about.

James Patterson

James Patterson

James Patterson

James Patterson