Storytelling Quotes - Page 16

• [Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

  Doris Lessing

  Thinking, People, Encounters

  Doris May Lessing (1996). “Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994”

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• Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who is taking the time to tell you a story that has great meaning to them. They're taking the time to do this because your life could use some help, but they don't want to come over and just give advice. They want to give it to you in a form that becomes inseparable from your whole self. That's what stories do. Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you.

  Alice Walker

  Real, Healing, Self

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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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• Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

  Neil Jordan

  Stories, Way, Wells

  Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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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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• The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.

  Eva LaRue

  Opportunity, Thinking, Artist

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

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• Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it’s nice to go, Well, I’m gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling. You don’t get to do that on television.

  Sarah Paulson

  Nice, Thinking, Two

  "The Conversation". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, nymag.com. April 26, 2009.

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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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• When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

  Ted Rall

  Writing, Thinking, Together

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• I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.

  Neil Strauss

  Love Is, Thinking, Stories

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• My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

  Jonathan Hickman

  Book, Goal, Design

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• When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to create a believable world with characters walking, in and out of the perspective, to create the illusion that there's a world. The desire and drive to create this illusion of three-dimensional space is something that is true about every kind of film because you want the audience to really be experiencing it, first hand. It's a natural extension of the storytelling and the process of filmmaking.

  Rob Minkoff

  Character, Hands, Always Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Thinking, World, Way

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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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• Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. I think there's something cathartic about having kids live through their fears through a book or any kind of story.

  Jane Levy

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• First of all, there is absolutely an order that we have put together to create the maximum number of surprises, but that's just part of our storytelling.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Order, Maximum Number, Numbers

  Source: collider.com

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• My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight', although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Fun, Twilight, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

  Gregory Nicotero

  Together, Monsters, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and there are different requirements for long-form storytelling that will hopefully carry over a number of seasons, then it's exciting.

  Greg Bryk

  Character, Numbers, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.

  Christopher Bollen

  Thinking, Climbing, Murder Mysteries

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Growth, Growing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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