Quotes About Storytelling

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

Cinema is an art form.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.