Quotes About Storytelling

I could tell you a tale about something,' Miach offered, rubbing her hand absently. 'If you like.' She frowned thoughtfully. 'What sort of something?' 'Something that would soothe you,' he promised. 'I'm sure there would be swords involved. Bloodshed. Peril. That kind of thing.

This is a work of fiction.

After that, of course, though he recovered later, nobody was about to believe any tales he had to tell about little live men.

No amount of photography could replace the memories of a life lived, of lives observed and known, of lives elaborated in the mind and on the page.

you have to understand that a writer's job is to make their story as dramatic as possible. Yes, stories are recreations of real life, but no one lives one lifetime with all the tragedy that a Russian writer can cram into a novel.

Lily told her about what had happened so far. (If you're interested, you can go back to the beginning of the book and read all the way through to this point again.)

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

He was no storyteller, as he had said, but that made it more enjoyable somehow, watching his serious face as he described flying horses and golden apples.

I had painted his history in bright, bold colours and he had fallen in love with my art. And now it was too late to go back and change it.

the proud witch undone before the hero's sword, kneeling and begging for mercy. Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.

They think of the stories that will be told, and they long to be in them.

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

Our lives are not a random series of events; they tell a Story that has meaning.

It was no good my knowing that old men have conned young ones like that ever since time began. I still fell for it, as one still falls for the oldest literary devices in the right hands and contexts.

Great trial lawyers aren't born; they're made. The great ones simply tell the jury a story...

Writers are generally split into two camps: those who carefully outline their stories and know the ending before they begin, and those who refuse to do so upon the theory that once a character is created he or she will do something interesting.

Mark Twain decía que movía estados y ciudades completos para que encajaran en su narración. Esa es la licencia que se les da a los novelistas o que ellos se toman por su cuenta.

had a flair for the narrative

are generally split into two camps: those who carefully outline their stories and know the ending before they begin, and those who refuse to do so upon the theory that once a character is created he or she will do something interesting

as the soldiers stood motionless in awe, watching a spectacle they would one day tell to their children and grandchildren.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

MADE FOR TELEVISION.

Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don't know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.