Quotes About Storytelling

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.

It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?

I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.

What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.