Quotes About Storytelling

In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

It's been such a nice journey doing 'When Calls the Heart' from Episode 1 to Episode 12. It's been a really, really nice journey.

'Kaafir' is an eight-episode series; but while shooting, you really don't know which part is for which episode.

It's not about creating 22 episodes indefinitely for as long as you can do.

I think 'NH10' could have been done equally well by anybody else, and it's not a 'female-centric' or 'male-centric' film. It's the story that will appeal to the audience.

In the digital space, writers and directors get time to build and establish a character.

I'm really drawn to European films.

I read to my kids every night.

Every night, I watch films.

We got in the ring and wrestled almost every night and didn't have many days off... The only thing I knew for certain when I got in the ring was exactly how I went in. We told a story and the match was the story.

I believed in Papa's stories a lot longer than I should have.

I couldn't ever be more than that in Lansing. Can't ever be more anyplace, it turns out, as long as I wear this brown skin. I used to think things were different, because Papa used to tell me stories about all the great things I could be and could do. But now I understand. Now I know they were just stories. Just ideas in his head.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

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A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

The question, then, is not "Is story telling science?" but "Can science learn to tell good stories?" (p. 50)

A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

ISAAC BABEL was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and journalist.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

There is no reason why a well thought-out story should resemble real life; life strives with all its might to resemble a well thought-out story.

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.