Storytelling Quotes

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

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.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It's the storytelling.

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

Tell me a story of deep delight.

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

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

It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.

The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.

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 love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Chord progression is progression of emotions; storytelling - taking one person from one mood to the next. We are doing the same thing within a DJ set.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride.

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.