Quotes About Storytelling

It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again.

Whatever I talk about onstage is just my story. My fan base is broad... We all have the same mom; it's just that ours has an accent.

The world has changed - we can all get news 24/7 from any device, any outlet... but we want to tell different stories in different ways, and add to the news.

People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth.

I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined it, why write the damn book?

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning.

Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.

I don't feel like I'm overwhelmed from meeting people and telling my story over and over again.

the writing process behind The Tilted World.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Estaba asombrado de que le hubiera resultado tan fácil. Lo único que tenía que hacer era decirle a la gente lo que la gente quería oír, y te creían, por muy absurda que pudiera ser la historia que les explicaras. Y tres días y tres noches sin dormir habían aletargado los recelos y la capacidad de escepticismo del inspector Flint.

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

Walking through a town can be like flicking through a picture book.

Katz argues that we are engaging in a kind of theatrical storytelling, inside of our cars, angrily "constructing moral dramas"15 in which we are the wronged victims—and the "avenging hero"—in some traffic epic of larger importance.

As a certain philosopher of ancient Greece once put it, the difference between the historian and poet/storyteller is that where the historian relates what happened, the storyteller tells us how it might have come about.

I learned long ago that a good-looking man in the right suit with a winning smile can get what he wants. All it takes is the ability to tell a story.

Who else is going to create the next great stories for kids to read?

Seven characters are too many for a ten-minute play. It'll be twenty minutes long! Fuck it. One of them is dead and the others can all talk fast.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us.

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.

You're an idiot," Snufkin said. "Or still worse, you're a story spoiler.