Quotes About Storytelling

Stories are always best when the story has a bottom line or point, or a comedic punchline, or a lesson to be learned; if there is no point,  the story might not be worth telling. People will usually look for the bottom line or purpose of why the story was told in the first place.

Jason could tell a yarn. He could hardly talk without telling a yarn; according to his zealous world view, every day was an adventure. He would relate his experiences like a combination of a bard, radio talk-show host, and bawdy

one story everyone can safely cover is how much we hate each other. There's no institutional or commercial taboo that story violates.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

Mercedes Lackey,

In den Glasperlen des Märchens spiegelt sich die Welt.

We can't just say, "This pen is great, and consumers should buy it!" We ought to wrap up this message and create not only a convincing, but an interesting story around it. Here I am, improvising on the spot: A lady dropped her pen in the street, it was raining heavily, and a gentleman picked it up and said, "May I have your number?"

The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

In my first novel the heroine didn't get her man, in my second the heroine was 64 years old, my third was a romantic suspense set behind the Iron Curtain, my fourth had no wedding bells, not even in the far distance.

Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.

Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story.

All of this is fiction And all of it is true

So where should we go at it?' asked Bastian. 'Anywhere you want me,' I murmured, dreamily. 'Pardon?' 'Anywhere,' I said. 'Why don't we start in a familiar place, so we are not nervous our first time?' I have to remind myself that this is real, and not part of the daydream. He's talking about the Storytelling Project. Not sex.

Without answers, at my most desperate, I came to feel (in some unarticulated way) that if I could just tell the right story about what was happening, I could make myself better. If only I could figure out what the story was, like the child in a fantasy novel who must discover her secret name, I could become myself again.

What does a person need?' she proclaimed one day after the first spoonful of dessert. 'Not much: something sweet to eat, and a story to tell, and time and space, and gladioluses in a vase, and two friends, and two hilltops, one on which to stand and the other upon which to gaze. And two eyes for watching the heavens and waiting....

About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the sky. Of lying between two people who read me stories of wild things and journeys with dragons, the soft hum of their voices speaking of love and serenity. See, I remember love.

With some stories, you really can't rush things. And it's often best just to sit back and enjoy the journey for what it is.

My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight ' although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.

With 'Twilight ' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza ' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

Enquanto ouvir estes relatos você se guarde quieto. O silêncio é que fabrica as janelas por onde o mundo se transparenta. Não escreva, deixe esse caderno no chão. Se comporte como água no vidro. Quem é gota sempre pinge, quem é cacimbo se evapora. Neste asilo, o senhor se aumente de muita orelha. É que aqui vivemos muito oralmente.

Contar una historia es echar sombras a la lumbre. En ese preciso instante, todo lo que la palabra revela lo consume el silencio. Solo quien reza entregando por completo el alma sabe lo que significa ese arder y esa caída de la palabra en los abismos.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

I told him that the lawyers were always saying 'You can't say that you'll get sued.' He said to me, 'Write fiction Michael, you can tell the truth.' (Kirk Douglas to Michael Caine)