Quotes About Storytelling

Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That's the power of story.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.

don't like being interrupted either—but I interrupt other people. I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather ends in themselves, tales I can learn from or repeat or dissect or savor.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

The world we experience as 'out there' is actually a reconstruction of reality that is built inside our heads. It's an act of creation by the storytelling brain.

The art of theatrical story-telling is necessarily relative to the audience to whom the story is to be told. One must assume an audience of a certain status and characteristics before one can rationally discuss the best methods of appealing to its intelligence and its sympathies.

Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention was, I sent her to sleep, and should have gone to sleep myself - but dark plots are ever wakeful. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")

In his terrific book, Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman wrote that the best approach to a good scene is to leave out the beginning and the end (the parts readers can readily guess or that matter least)

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

The world is still, for she is old And many´s the bead of life she´s told. Her gossip there, the watching moon Views hill and stream and wave and dune

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

As always, we two have fallen to reminiscing of Blossom Prairie and our life there before my father died, telling stories by the hour which both of us have heard and told so often now that it is the rhythm which stirs us more than the words, our tongues thickening steadily until the accent is barely intelligible to my Yankee wife, who listens amused, amazed, bewildered, bored, and sometimes appalled.

Psychologist Richard Gerrig defines a narrative as a device that temporarily mentally transports the listener or reader away from their immediate surroundings; when it ends, they return to their surroundings "somewhat changed by the journey.

But I believe if you tell a story, it's like sending a nightingale into the air with the hope that its song will never be forgotten.

But I believe if you tell a story, it's like sending a nightingale into the air with the hope that its song will never be forgotten.

We are pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and have been since we began drawing on cave walls.

Costner's film captured the main character's motives, while removing 30 IQ points.