Storytelling Quotes - Page 15

• Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.

  David Gerrold

  Hurt, Stars, Giving Up

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• There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Men, Dust

  Umberto Eco (2003). “Baudolino”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

  David Chase

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Watch This: David Chase's Must-See Movies". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2013.

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• When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

  David Nevins

  Ambition, Simple, Swinging For The Fences

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• A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Kings, Book, Voice

  "Carlos Ruiz Zafón's top 10 20th-century gothic novels" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

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• This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

  Christina Baldwin

  Narrative, Attributes, Storyteller

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.11, New World Library

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• I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.

  Felicity Jones

  Exercise, Emotional, Brain

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time is really the stuff that interests me.

  Steven Bochco

  Dog, Divorce, Emotional

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

  Damon Lindelof

  Writing, Stories, Distinction

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

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• The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything.

  Joss Whedon

  Wish, Television, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.

  Ben Clymer

  Writing, Long, Anecdotes

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• Most people think its sex, money, and drugs but Hip-Hop is about lyrics, storytelling, and everybody having a different style. That's just another idea of beautiful, being yourself and creating music that represents you and what you like.

  Rapsody

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Sex

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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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• 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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• Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.

  David Adjaye

  Opportunity, Agency, Transformation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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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• When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may be the most profound storytelling there is, because the character gets to live and roll around in the audience's mind week after week.

  Howard Gordon

  Character, Tv Shows, Profound

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a more intimate and personal experience these days.

  Doug Benson

  Thinking, Important, Intimate

  "8 Questions with Doug Benson". Interview with French Davis, yellowscene.com. August 19, 2011.

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• Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures, they usually do a pretty good (or pretty awful, but always interesting) job of lying.

  John Hodgman

  Jobs, Lying, Interesting

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• Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

  Angela Bettis

  Want, Stories, Good Work

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• Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my background. Cindy Kelley, who has been my writing partner on my novels, she works more on the prose side and the description side of the storytelling because, obviously, there's a lot more of that in a novel than in a screenplay. You only have up to 120 pages in a screenplay.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Writing, Pages, Firsts

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. (But) anything that's telling a good story makes me happy. So, I just like to be part of the storytelling process.

  Teryl Rothery

  People, Laughing, Stories

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Real, Book, Novelists

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• In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

  Rhys Ifans

  Party, Skills, Singing

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