Quotes About Storytelling

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legends to surround it—giving history to what had just

SUPPOSE YOU closed this book right now and started to tell a story about your life from now until the moment you die—the moment that they throw dirt on your face and your life turns out the way it does. What would that story include?

Sometimes telling what happened, in whatever way you can, is a means of lightening your burden. It summons others to help you bear the weight of your own story, so that you might finally get out from under it.

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.

But there's also all this meaning in there, you know? All this human emotion. Beauty, conflict, joy, dissonance, resolution. He makes it all so clear." "Like a story," Adam says. Beauty, conflict, joy, dissonance, resolution. "Yes," Callum says. "Like a story. You get it.

I did not kill twenty dragons. Maybe two. On two separate occasions, and I had to.

Besides, I long for men's company: the prattle of the little girls — much though I love them — drives me to an earlier and earlier breakfast, to a later and even later dinner, so that presently the two will meet, as they did in Avicenna's tale.

The whole point of adventure is that it is unplanned; a leap in the dark, verging on the unfortunate, offering glimpses of danger; and what separates adventure from disaster is that you live to tell the tale.

I'm a writer, I said. I like long stories.

How nice it would be, I thought, if someone reading the narrative of my African trip felt the same, that it was the next best thing to being there

Valerie's and Diego's helpful candor and their ability to tell a story set the tone of the workshop. I blessed my luck that I would have a week or more with such wonderful students, and told them how—a traveler's blessing—I felt I now had twenty-four friends.

The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.

I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed.

She said, 'The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.

Tell your story: Yes, tell your story. Show your example. Tell everyone it's possible, and others shall feel the courage, to climb their own mountains.

You never let the cards tell their own story; you were trying to make them confirm what you imagined you knew.

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.