Quotes About Storytelling

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day.

For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

There are a lot of movies with vampires and monsters and super-great effects, but if there's no humor or human relations, I don't think it's ever worth seeing.

Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God's.

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

Be careful what you tell me. You could end up in my next novel.

Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

The moment there is imagination there is myth

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

What year is it in your imagination?

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.