Quotes About Storytelling

Always know your protagonists inside and out. As a writer, show us things about them we've never before considered; make us care about who they are and what they want, so much that it's gut-wrenching to see them roadblocked and exhilarating to see them triumph over obstacles. You have to live inside them, through them--inhabit them as an actor would and tell stories about things that matter immensely to the both of you.

Ich habe erzählt, wie ich mit Timanris die Nacht in meinem Malzimmer verbrachte. Möchtest du wissen, was wir alles getan haben - außer zu malen. Und wie oft, alter Alb?" - Sinthoras

I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.

We also cling to the past as a way of contrasting it with the present—usually to highlight something positive about ourselves at the expense of someone else. Do you ever find yourself beginning a long self-serving story with the phrase, "When I was your age . . ."?

they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty. —ELIE WIESEL

I guess you can't tell a story from the point of view of something that you don't think has a point of view.(You know, just imagine everything it says in the most sarcastic tone possible.) "There's unrealistic that takes you away from reality and unrealistic that reminds you that everybody's afraid of you.

When a major character died in the twentieth episode I had to pause seven minutes while it sat there in the feed doing the bot equivalent of staring at a wall, pretending that it had to run diagnostics. Then four episodes later the character came back to life and it was so relieved we had to watch that episode three times before it would go on.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

The first thing you should know about the second Bradbury expedition is I lived to tell you about it. That should be obvious since I'm telling you about it, right? But I had a drinking buddy back at the Old Town Tavern in Tycho Under, and practically every one of his stories ended with, "And then I died in the mess.

Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive.

This is weft and the weave of story for me. The endless lyrical emerging of the earth's tremendous thinking and the humbling required to simply bear witness to it. And the extraordinary day, when for an hour or so you realise that you too are being witnessed.

The Wind in the Willows Retold from the Kenneth Grahame original by Martin Woodside

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

The dang man could tell a good story fluffed with terms like gonna do and want to do but he never quite grasped the idea of did.

Learn to tell what your story is about in one sentence. Narrow your focus. Stories have to be about something.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

That's the crux of my prayer for you as you walk through difficult relationship -- that you would begin to see God's storytelling in your life even in the midst of pain and bewilderment.

Our stories must be passed to our sons and daughters, for with but one generation, history and truth are lost forever.

Write it down, he had told me. Write down every word once you get there, Before the truth is forgotten. And now we do, at least the parts we remember. —Greyson Ballenger, 14

I don't think there is any book that can't teach you something, even if it is how not to tell a story.

Toddlers have limited capacity to understand the Lifebook as more than a story. However, the seed is planted for later understanding of and receptivity to information about their earliest days before becoming part of their adoptive family. The tone of voice and emotional demeanor of the adult telling the adoption story while showing the Lifebook is extremely important at this age. Respect, empathy, and support for everyone who has been part of the child's life history are important.

Lie back and enjoy, Clarissima. Last night was a synopsis. Now it's time for the unabridged version.

When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if they draw on these limited resources like spend thrifts such resemblances will be inevitable--and therefore not significant.