Quotes About Storytelling

Someone might ask, if the dynamic of innovation consists of schema and revision, where does true originality come from? Is there no single work we can point to as the ultimate source of this or that new storrytelling strategy? I'm inclined to say there is no such source. Artists working in mass art forms find originality by revising schemas in circulation, or by revising ones that have fallen into disuse.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a bad way. For an actor this would be anathema, it would destroy the illusion, but with singing one can have it both ways. As a singer, you can be transparent and reveal yourself on stage, in that moment, and at the same time be the person whose story is being told in the song. Not too many kinds of performance allow that.

He said all I could do was tell them, so that is what I did, I told them all the long the short and the tall

Writers possess only four tools: research, experience, empathy, and imagination. Fortunately, whole worlds can be built from them.

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

When I was a wee lad, Uncle Dickie sat me on his knee, and regaled me with stories about the genesis of a game that involved trying to jam a ball into a hole in the ground with a stick

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

She had not yet sensed the pea beneath the pile of mattresses, the pea that belonged to the little brown-skinned girl who used to make up stories to keep her soul pinned down inside her or, at times, to let it fly—stories whose most exciting element was the word "suddenly" at the beginning of every sentence and before each description: Suddenly, suddenly, her heart would leap when she whispered to herself, suddenly .

Toate povestile sunt legate intr-un mod profund de un mare adevar, chiar daca acesta ramane de neinteles pentru noi.

Los dioses enviaron desgracias a los mortales para que puedan contarlas y que en esta posibilidad la palabra encuentre su recurso infinito

The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I write, the more I feel the force of the other urge, which collaborates with and completes the first one: the desire to know the Other from within him. To feel what it means to be another person. To be able to touch, if only for a moment, the blaze that burns within another human being.

had come all this way and this was what I get paid to do. So I went out and found his home and for four hours it all poured out, what had happened in those three days at Chipyongni when he was a young platoon leader. It was if he had been waiting for me to come by for fifty-five years, and he remembered everything as

The Old Testament is a classic example of the religious recycling which has spawned all the religions. So when you are looking for the original meaning of Genesis and the story of Adam you have to go back to the Sumerian accounts to see how the story has been doctored. Genesis says that 'God' (the gods) created the first man, Adam, out of 'dust from the ground' and then used a rib of Adam to create Eve, the first woman.

I'd used people's stories and their lives to bolster my political arguments for changing welfare. Now, however, I was running into the people themselves, and I realized that using anyone's tragedy for political gain was cowardly.

It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction.

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

I have a story that will make you believe in God.

Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd.

Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.