Quotes About Storytelling

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience.

That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.

What doesn't kill us makes a good story.

People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

Before you judge my life, my past or my character. Walk in my shoes, walk the path I have traveled, live my sorrow, my doubts, my fear, my pain and my laughter. Remember everyone has a story.

If you dont turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

He had more stories of his son from a single year, I thought, than my father had of me in all eternity.

Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep

Aprendí a dormir de día con el fin de no estar cansado a su regreso, pues Aquiles siempre necesitaba hablar y contarme hasta el último detalle de los semblantes, las heridas y los movimientos de los hombres. Y yo deseaba ser capaz de escuchar para asimilar las sangrientas imágenes y pintarlas luego vulgares y corrientes en el vaso de la posteridad, y para liberarle de ellas y conseguir que volviera a ser Aquiles.