Quotes About Storytelling

You really think I'd let you go to school without me? I'd show up tomorrow and hear that I got pinned running from a cougar, only to be saved by you rushing in and staring him down." "Um, yeah, that's pretty much how I remember it." "Exactly why I'm going. To get my version out first.

After he got expelled, everybody at school called Jake Houdini instead of Jake. Everybody except for me. I'll explain why, but you have to be patient. It's hard work telling everything in the right order.

who wanted to see a monster, even if it meant that you got to tell everyone about it?

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

The power of a good film is to engage you and draw you into its world.

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.

I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.

When I hear people watched my film and then got on their own bikes and rode, whether a few miles or across America, to achieve their own goals - that excites me. It's the power of a story.

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are also cheaper, they are more accessible to make.

Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

To tell a story is to take power over it.

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).

Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.

Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.

Some folks swear, though not at all, that, using chains, he sliced his head off--derby and all--and that the head sailed like a cannon ball through the air a quarter mile, bounced another quarter mile, and still had enough steam to cripple a horse some fellow was riding into New Marsails.