Quotes About Storytelling

Do you know what history is?" Peter asks. "History?" "Yeah." "I dunno," Frankie says, "it's things that happened." "No," Peter says, "it's what people say happened.

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

Real life. The greatest interactive fiction of them all.

telling the jokes—was the setups. Why were that priest, that rabbi, and that minister walking down that street? Where were they headed? How had they happened to come together? What odd chance had put ex-presidents Bush, Clinton, and Carter on that same plane?

Mr. Dortmunder, this is too good a story to just jump in and tell the end." Dortmunder hated stories that were that good, but

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don't give in to fear.

When I'm photographing I see life.

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the Master Storyteller do the writing.