Quotes About Storytelling

Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.

As Isabel Allende said, "You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not." Step

It's one thing to relay a fact to a person. It's a whole different thing when you tell a story.

When I make a film, it is a sleep in which I am dreaming.

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A man is always a teller of stories (...) and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it

He pensado lo siguiente: para que el suceso más trivial se convierta en aventura, es necesario y suficiente contarlo.

Ya yaÅŸamay? ya da anlatmay? seçmek gerek.

So that's why I'm such a big fan of storytelling. I think the most important thing is empathy. And it's less about 'those people'. Because I think we're all 'those people'.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

I didn't want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it's rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.

I'm telling you stories. Trust me.

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it's the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It's like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It's like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you – and it can't, and it shouldn't, because something is missing.

I tried to build an igloo out of orange peel but it kept falling down and even when it stood up I didn't have an eskimo to put in it, so I had to invent a story about 'How Eskimo Got Eaten', which made me even more miserable. It's always the same with diversions; you get involved

Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to stop the story from running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants.

People like to separate storytelling which is not fact from history which is fact. They do this so that they know what to believe and what not to believe.

When we tell a story we exercise control, but in such a way as to leave a gap, an opening. It is a version, but never the final one. When we write we offer the silence as much as the story. Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

Vertel me een verhaal, Silver. Wat voor verhaal? Het verhaal van wat daarna gebeurde. Dat hangt ervan af. Waarvan? Van hoe ik het vertel.

Life, we imagine, is familiar enough until we begin to tell it to another. Then, observe the wonder on their faces--sometimes it is wonder, often it is horror. Only in the living of it does life seem ordinary. In the telling of it we find ourselves strangers among the strange.

What is your story sir? I said. That is the dilemma, he replied. I do not know if I am the teller or the tale.

I will have red roses next year. A forest of red roses. On this rock? In this climate? I'm telling you stories. Trust me.

I tried to build an igloo out of the orange peel but it kept falling down and even when it stood up I didn't have an eskimo to put in it, so I had to invent a story about 'How Eskimo Got Eaten', which made me even more miserable. It's always the same with diversions; you get involved.

Raccontami una storia, Pew. Che storia, piccola? Una a lieto fine? Non ne troverai una in tutto il mondo. Nessun lieto fine, dunque? Nessuna fine.

In cetatea cuvintelor despre care v-am povestit, mirosul de fragi era mirosul caracteristic casei despre care inca nu v-am povestit.