Storytelling Quotes

Storytelling Quote of the day

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know your story, you are much more likely to be a skillful parent.

Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story.

A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it shor

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.

I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

The key is in the craft.

I believe stories have a will of their own, one that surpasses in volition that of their teller. In realms of Storytelling, stories control their bearers, and eventually, their hearers as well.

Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.

The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.

We write until we find our way. Then the real fun begins.

I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring at you.

When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity.

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us.

Writers don’t write about just anybody.

Only cowards leave words unspoken.

Wherever you are, wherever you go, be sure to spread the light.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

Write before the sun comes up.

The power of classical music turns my words into fire.

A day’s brightness is determined by the light in our hearts.

Own your truth.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens.

I fight evil, and words are my weapons of choice.

It’s always more than just a story.

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

Let your story breathe and be what it really is.

Do you want the truth or fiction?

Don’t confuse the darkness that’s leaving with the light that’s coming in.

A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is reallythe only proper way to begin a story--the only way that reallysmacks of romance and fairyland--

Take your ego out of your story.

Stories were heirlooms in these parts.

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

Be the light.

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

Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.