Quotes About Storytelling

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

Now, surely, I am getting old, for my memory of myself as a young man seems now to be complete, as a story told. The young man leaps, and lands on an old man's legs.

Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told. As almost any barber can testify, there is also more than needs to be told, and more than anybody wants to hear.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.

On July 13, 1925, Walt and Lillian were married. They spent their honeymoon at Mount Rainier. On their wedding night, Walt had such a bad toothache that he couldn't sleep. To take his mind off the pain, he left their room and helped a porter shine shoes all night. The next morning he went to a dentist and had his tooth pulled. It certainly wasn't the most fun way to start off a marriage. But Walt had a good story to tell.

I prefer books that take me on a journey, whether it's across vast distances and epic landscapes or one that twists and turns and surprises me with what happens on each page.

I am asked to tell the story of the Diamond and, instead of that, I have been telling the story of my own self.

Who makes you Storyteller? You do. You are . Go play.

If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species.

Another friend of mine defines writing as: Torturing your characters for fun and profit.

Tap?nma biçimleri seçtiler ÅŸiirsel hikayelerden. Ve nihayet bu tür ÅŸeylerin Tanr?lar?n emri olduÄŸunu ilan ettiler. Böylece insanlar, Bütün tanr?sal varl?klar?n insan?n baÄŸr?nda yer ald???n? unuttular.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

If a story is in you, it has got to come out.

To present a whole world that doesn't exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we're polymaths. That's just the act of all good writing.

Fables from before the Anaheiming.

For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next.

Screenplays are structure, and that's all they are. The quality of writing—which is crucial in almost every other form of literature—is not what makes a screenplay work. Structure isn't anything else but telling the story, starting as late as possible, starting each scene as late as possible. You don't want to begin with "Once upon a time," because the audience gets antsy.

I got to belch my witch; she's done eating by now.

William Goldman