Quotes About Storytelling

I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.

I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

("we appreciated the intricately thought-out, detailed universe you've created for your story." ~Arthur A. Levine Books (publishers of The Harry Potter series.)) about my book!

Fantasy is a wise lie.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.

The best memories are the ones that you try to explain but in the end...you just say..'You had to be there.'

Every tear has a story...Every smile has a story...Every kiss has a story...Everyone is trying to tell their own story to the world but they cant because life is full of hate these days...Lets try to change this hate to love so we can live a happy life.

Life is a movie, and you're the director to decide whether people will laugh or cry when watching yours.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful.

She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

Life is like a story, it has an ending...

Life is too short for a long story.

Life is like a story. Each day is like a chapter. Each year is like a part. But like every book, each story is different. You cant judge a book by its cover until you know its story.

I guess sometimes in life we have to deal with the hand we have been dealt. No way around it, in the end we all have a story to tell.