Quotes About Storytelling

Imagine the life of the last human. Someone was the last Neanderthal. One day, Homo sapien's time will come too. Someone will be the last of our species. What a strange fate that is. They won't have anyone to tell their tale to

We're not in an Age of Politics, we're in an Age of Netflix. It's who can tell the most compelling story who wins.

Novelists get spooked by a blank page, yet the unconscious mind can create amazing, creative dreams from scratch every night. It never has writer's block. It's never stuck when it comes to thrilling storytelling.

On his early decision to become an actor: "I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

David Walliams

David Walliams

David Walliams

You will. Another day." "But Granny…" "Ben, you have to go home." "That's not fair!" "Ben, you must leave now. I can tell you what happened when you come another day." "BUT!" "To be continued," she said.

I told the taxi driver the story of what happened the last time we went to the airport. They both laughed, reminding me that I could talk when I was in the mood. My obstacles were often my own.

The fictitious kleptomaniac's only crime was stealing imaginations

We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I'd bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I'd never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you'll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.

Knowing your full true story, telling your full true story, living your full true story--it seems like the most basic right of every human being.

Write the story. Don't write sentences.

You know you are a writer when you talk about your characters as if they were real people!

Further editing deepens a story.

Film brings people together.

I can't sew, but I can spin one helluva yarn.

Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.

Just surrender to the story.

Screenwriting is made of brevity.

But how wonderful when the tale is told, And the message that is meant for usOpens like the scents of a mountain flower!

A book is a dream you hold in your hands

If you surrender to your imagination, the story will write itself.

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.