Storytelling Quotes - Page 11

• Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.

  Pam Allyn

  Children, Powerful, Reading

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• I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Beautiful, Thinking, World

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• Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which we live.

  Daniel Taylor

  Broken, Healthy, Stories

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• Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

  Maria Tatar

  Hands, Magic, Enchantment

  Maria Tatar (2009). “Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.

  Paule Marshall

  Mother, Art, Kitchen

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• Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Reading, Passion, Love Of Reading

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• I feel like there's lot of people who know finance and economics better than I do. There are lots of people who are better storytellers than I am. But the space that I occupy of storytelling about finance and economics is - more people want it than can do it.

  David Plotz

  Space, People, Want

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

  Bradley Cooper

  Business, Love Is, Window

  "Bradley Cooper Interview". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Writing, Creativity, Thinking

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• Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.

  David Crabb

  Character, Years, Acting

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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• From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.

  Lynn Collins

  Medicine, People, Magic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

  Simon Callow

  Theatre, Way, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there's much more demand than there is supply.

  David Plotz

  Numbers, People, Important

  Source: www.slate.com

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• If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates to narrative: the design has to support the narrative. Storytelling is the most important thing.

  Christine Jones

  Interesting, Design, Support

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• I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with the reality of life that can't be easily spoken about in everyday conversation. It is a hugely powerful process of helping people find themselves through music.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Song, Powerful, Reality

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• Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Medicine, Needs, Stories

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• Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-sa What I said: “Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-savvy bond analyst. Drew Chapman is a debut novelist to watch.

  Alafair Burke

  Smart, Hero, Political

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• Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing about staff cutbacks and circulation declines, should embrace this book as a reminder of the highest ideals, and the absolute thrills, to be found in their profession. As for regular readers, Pulitzer's Gold offers marvelous storytelling, real-life adventures, and absolute proof that journalism can change our world for the better.

  Jeffrey Zaslow

  Real, Book, Inspiration

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• Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Age, Stories, Able

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• I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an exciting, fast-paced way - enough that there's a really clear, aggressive direction to where it's going, to pay off mystery and reward the audiences loyalty.

  Eric Kripke

  Loyalty, Rewards, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

  Adam Savage

  Forever, Stories, Done

  "The Truth About MythBusters". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Feelings, Culture, Authority

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• Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject.

  Chris Wedge

  Independent, People, Groups

  "10 Questions: Chris Wedge". Interview with Brian Linder, www.ign.com. March 1, 2005.

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• Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.

  Lionel Richie

  Country, Kings, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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