Quotes About Storytelling

Anne Frank wasn't a star pupil. She was a likeable child. Sometimes I'd bump into her in the mornings on her way to school. Then she'd sometimes tell me stories that she'd made up together with her father. They were always really funny stories. She told me a lot about her father, but not much about her mother and sister. I also knew that she wanted to be a writer. Maybe she would have been…

Anlatmasam inanmazlar o?ul, masal derler; masala inanmazlar, masal? yaln?zca dinlerler, sanki hakikati bilirmi? gibi, sanki hakikatin s?rr?na ermi? gibi, masala inanmayan gerçe?e inan?r m??

Descriptions of dreams have a dubious place in storytelling. For these are dreams which have been imagined--'dreamed up', to be slotted in. A story can be made up. How can a dream be made up? By not rising of its own free will from the unconscious it sets a note of falsity, merely illustrating something 'dream-like', which may be why dream descriptions within stories seen curiously meaningless. To avoid glazing over, best then to turn the page quickly.

Do not despise the small but significant symbolic act. God probably does not want you to reorganize the entire discipline or the entire world of your vocation overnight. Learn to be symbol-makers and story-tellers for the kingdom of God.

First, we break bread and drink wine together, telling the story of Jesus and his death, because Jesus knew that this set of actions would explain the meaning of his death in a way that nothing else--no theories, no clever ideas--could ever do.

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.

But the early Christians—who themselves knew only too well that the world had not turned into Utopia overnight and that they still faced suffering, prison, and death—firmly believed that what had happened on the cross was the Messianic victory. That is why they told the story the way they did.

For far too long now Christians have told the story of Jesus as if it hooked up not with the story of Israel, but simply with the story of human sin as in Genesis 3, skipping over the story of Israel

The Christian churches in general have always been subject to the temptation to use the Bible to annotate the story we want to tell for ourselves, rather than allow the Bible to tell its own story and invite us to join in.

A Raggy Dog, a Shaggy Dog In

So there's a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn't about how much sense you make, it is about how compelling you are. (interview)

The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story

So what accounts for the enduring popularity of these stories where nothing happens on a grand scale, where characters engage in endless small talk and the protagonists suffer in silence and only reveal their true feelings at the very end of the tale?

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

Pero el relato -el hecho de relacionar acontecimientos y personas en una historia- es precisamente lo que da sentido a la existencia humana.

Le roman est le genre humain par excellence .

Before books, there were stories. In them was distilled the knowledge each generation wished to pass on to the next. Storytelling was (and is) a form of power. It was time binding: it linked then to now. Told eloquently, at the right time to the right listeners, a story shaped the future." -The Real Valkyrie

My stories wrap around me like a cozy quilt, and sometimes I long to pull that quilt over my head and pin the blanket shut, allowing me to immerse myself in the world vivid in my mind.

Stories and images can be powerful means for conveying ideas. Every time we read a book or watch a movie, we enter into an imaginative

we tinker with actuality in order to transform the tale told by an idiot into an orderly, self-serving narrative.

Tú verías bondad en la cara del mismo Satán si llamara a tu puerta con una historia lastimera y el estómago vacío - ¿Y me equivocaría? ¿Si Satán necesitara alimento?

Writing is storytelling, and storytelling, after all, is play." Naomi Alderman

I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.

Rick's dream, though he seldom described it as such, was to someday tell a story so good that the people who heard it simply wouldn't want to kill wolves anymore.