Quotes About Storytelling

He was struck by the sensation she'd made it happen in some way, that his life was simply a story the old woman was making up in her head.

Children need to see that they are part of a history and that the story of their family is a living thing. God tells it, a new story in each generation, and each must hold hands across the sea of time, joining together the ones who went before and the ones who come after. It is given from above. Little do we understand this in the beginning, but time teaches us many things we did not expect to learn. That is life. It is the same everywhere.

The truth is no excuse for a boring story".

If you stop to think about it, you'll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

Alfonso Cuaron

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.

convey the most powerful elements of your story clearly, succinctly and passionately

Our minds have an amazing ability to create a narrative that explains the world around us, an ability that works particularly well when we already know the answer.

Hearing a story awakens the mythic story living in each of us. It places us in a "mythic condition" that reconnects us to the core imagination and living story at the center of our soul. Being touched by myth carries us to the center where the world is always ending and always beginning again.

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

For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.

She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.

For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.

I'll keep these same photographs pinned to a wall above my desk as tiny parables.

Every excursion or expedition we take is a story, an inner narrative that we sometimes don't even realise we're following.

Vijftieneneenhalf,' zei Dora hoofdschuddend. 'Zo ver kan ik niet terugdenken... Kun jij je nog iets herinneren van toen je vijftien was?' 'Levendig,' zei Scatty bars. 'Was dat niet zo ongeveer toen ik u in Babylon heb opgezocht en u hebt geprobeerd me aan koning Neboekadzenar uit te huwelijken?' 'Volgens mij vergis je je,' zei Dora opgewekt. 'Ik geloof dat dat later was.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.

We are our planet's autobiographers- so lets tell as many stories as is possible.

Good writers serve their stories; bad writers serve their own agendas.

Here's the deal," a close Trump associate told Priebus. "In an hour meeting with him you're going to hear fifty-four minutes of stories and they're going to be the same stories over and over again. So you have to have one point to make and you have to pepper it in whenever you can.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

I always want to tell stories. But they must be stories that evolve, like our own lives. Perhaps what I seek is a new kind of story.