Quotes About Storytelling

When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

I wanted to be free of today. As if in the telling, there would be a cure.

There's always more to the story, Catriona," She replied. "That's the wonderful thing about stories.

That's what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard.

Story is the best magic there is.

what his father had been up to all these years, not entertaining his children but perfecting his world. If you wrote your own characters, they didn't disappoint you like real people did. If you told your own story, you got to pick your ending. Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.

If you wrote your own characters, they didn't disappoint you like real people did. If you told your own story, you got to pick your ending. Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.

Part of dedicating your life to studying literature is realizing that storytelling is more than just make-believe and that make-believe is far more important that we all pretend -- make believe -- it is. One way or another books tell the stories of their readers. But telling our lives is not the same as shaping them, whittling them away. Suddenly Jill had lost control. Her books had taken over and were in charge.

But there was a catalyst, an event, a moment which changed everything and not just for us. This is good for storytelling but bad for decision making, and it is frightening to look back and realize, were it not for that moment, all of our lives would have been so different. maybe that's revisionist history. Maybe it's me making origin myths. But I can't shake the conviction that Jason's boyfriend's friend's ex-boyfriend's girlfriend changed the world.

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

I have dreamt that all my teeth fell out but my tongue lived to tell the tale

Los expertos de todo el mundo se acaban de dar cuenta de algo que cualquier niño podría haberles dicho: que una historia es más fácil de escuchar y mucho más fácil de recordar que una seca retahíla de hechos y propuestas».

Durante los años noventa el relato era un requisito imprescindible para cualquier proyecto político: y el relato consistía en explicar por qué un movimiento político o un partido merecía tomarse en serio y por qué valía la pena creer y difundir sus mensajes esenciales.

El impacto de la mejor historia siempre se rebaja cuando el narrador carece de credibilidad.

idea that the best strategic practice may now consist in forming compelling accounts of how to turn a developing situation into a desirable outcome.

But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

Tuning in does not mean questioning our children about every little detail of their lives. Instead, tell an interesting story from your day; they might respond with a story of their own.

As any good teacher of dreams will tell you, you are all the people in your dream. Fritz Perls taught, "[All] the different parts, any part in the dream-is yourself, is a projection of yourself."22 And to ask why we made our story this way and not that way is to reenter our sacred text once again as living participants. We could have made it another way, but chose to cast it in this one. We must be all the parts of our dream, even the ones we don't like.

It's not just about entertainment. It's about telling stories that audiences connect with emotionally. The way to do this is to make our films personal, to make certain they mean something to our directors.

But I remember a scene where someone sneaks out into the woods to meet someone. ... And that's where it came from. Everything else is there to turn it from an image into a story. ... That image was strong enough for me to never give up on it, no matter what my editors and agents thought.

I don't worry much about whether or not one of my stories contains elements of the supernatural. If I come up with what I think is a nifty concept, I'll give it a whirl.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.