Quotes About Storytelling

The white man knows many things," the other whispered back, "but he doesn't know how to tell a good lie.

A story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story

Someday he would write his memoirs, when his adventures had arranged themselves into a suitably attractive package.

What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave behind our traces.

the world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully. But also that by telling the story of the world, we are changing the world. That is why God created the letters of the alphabet, that we might have the opportunity to narrate to him what he created. Reb Mordke always chuckled at this. "God is blind. Did you not know that?" he would say. "He created us that we would be his guides, his five senses.

Opowie?? ma swoj? bezw?adno??, nad któr? nie mo?na nigdy do ko?ca zapanowa?. Domaga si? takich jak ja — niepewnych siebie, niezdecydowanych, ?atwych do wywiedzenia w pole. Naiwnych.

Do not leave any unexplained, unnarrated situations, any closed doors; kick them down with a curse, even the ones that lead to embarrassing and shameful hallways you would prefer to forget. Don't be ashamed of any fall, of any sin... He who has not mastered the art of speaking shall remain forever caught in a trap.

that the world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

When I grow up, I am going to write for children — and grownups that haven't grown up too much — all the earth-songs I now do hear.

The writer who shuts himself up in a room and first goes on a journey inside himself will, over the years, discover literature's eternal rule: he must have the artistry to tell his own stories as if they were other people's stories, and to tell other people's stories as if they were his own, for this is what literature is.

Almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie.

Tener o no un final feliz depende de dónde decidas detener la narración de la historia

The deep logic of God's truth can be expressed in both stories and arguments, by questions as well as statements, through reason and the imagination, through the four Gospels as well as through the book of Romans.

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Ich habe die Überzeugung gewonnen, dass Kinder das beste und klügste Publikum sind, das man sich als Geschichtenerzähler nur wünschen kann. Kinder sind strenge, unbestechliche Kritiker." [As quoted on Preußler's official website .]

Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

Like sometimes when you go to a movie and you get so lost in the story that when you're walking out of the theater you can't remember anything at all about your own life.

There is a great deal of solemn discussion about The Novel. In fact, every novel is an answer to the ancient plea, 'Tell us a story.

If you and I can learn to tell our stories—not necessarily in writing but in talking about them, in daily living and in worship—we will affect our world in ways that only eternity will tell.