Quotes About Storytelling

Don't write to sell, write to tell.

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

I want to turn my life into sad adventure and myths.

You are the storyteller and the editor of your book of life. So write tales of imagination, tragedy, and adventure and illustrate it with the colors of beauty.

Tell your story to inspired other people to rise up and live their dreams.

Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story.

What doesn't kill you makes a good story.

If you don't have a narrative, just make one up. You can always change it when you have more clarity. Any narrative beats no narrative." - L. R. W. Lee

To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one.

When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.

Writing's in the nouns.

I use only my penned imagination to hold my readers captive.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.

For me, I want to tell stories that will affect my children in a positive way, that they can be proud of me for working on and doing. I want to be alight in the world. There's enough darkness.

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

Our lives preserved. How it was and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it