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Quotes About Storytelling

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.
~ William Osler
O God! Horatio, what a wounded name,Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me.If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,Absent thee from felicity awhile,And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,To tell my story.
~ William Shakespeare
I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,Thy knotted and combined locks to part,And each particular hair to stand an end,Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
~ William Shakespeare
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
~ William Shatner
the most important element in the entire process was story, story, story. "It's always the good story," he said. "It doesn't matter how many ships you blow up, how many missiles you fire, how many fights or disasters or stunts you show. Is it a good story? Is it something you can take home with
~ William Shatner
Sadece roman duygu sömürüsü yapmadan anlatabilir.
~ William Sutcliffe
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.
~ William Trevor
Alcohol served here: because no good story ever started with a salad!" The "alcohol" fueling today's market is QE. By
~ William W. Priest
O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in every thing. What more I have to say is short, And you must kindly take it: It is no tale; but, should you think, Perhaps a tale you'll make it.
~ William Wordsworth
My gentle Reader, I perceive, How patiently you've waited, And now I fear that you expect Some tale will be related. O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in every thing. What more I have to say is short, And you must kindly take it: It is no tale; but, should you think, Perhaps a tale you'll make it.
~ William Wordsworth
Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.
~ Willie Nelson
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
~ Wim Wenders
Movies are] like writing history with lightning.
~ Woodrow Wilson
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said "No."
~ Woody Allen
I pledge to tell you the truth, to be kind, but sometimes to be blunt. Together, let's examine the stories you're making up to see how many of them are based in reality. Personally, prior to the age of 36, almost every story I had was based in a lie. But I'd like you to remember that it doesn't take nearly as many words to tell the truth as it does to bullshit somebody.
~ Wyatt Webb
Nada querría más que estirar este rato delicioso como un cuento sin principio ni fin, hasta que el mundo fuera otra vez simple y no hubiera tantos cañones apuntándome...
~ Xavier Velasco
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
~ Yann Martel
The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?
~ Yann Martel
In the old days, you either had to buy expensive advertising or beg the media to tell your story. Sadly, many organizations don't realize that they have a much better option—they can tell their story directly to an interested market.
~ David Meerman Scott
What is the point of making up a story about ourselves that we hate? Whatever story we come up with is going to be different from the one that other people have created about us anyway—you can be sure of that.
~ David Michie
David Nadelberg
~ Fuck cotton.
Truth Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.
~ David Ogilvy
History is a fable agreed upon.
~ David Quammen
Legend is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and legend tells us about a million men,
~ David S. Brody