Storytelling Quotes - Page 26

• In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Art, Communication, Kentucky

  Maxine Cheshire, John Greenya (1979). “Maxine Cheshire, reporter”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.

  Natalie Kusz

  Family, Parent, Soul

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• Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.

  Harry Lloyd

  Feet, Brilliant, Carpet

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• My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while Foster the People plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mistake, Book, Creativity

  "How to Win the 2012 Fiction Contest!" by Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. September 1, 2011.

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

  Jill Lepore

  Long, Interesting, Argument

  "Just the Facts, Ma'am" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2008.

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• The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a wondrous, scintillating web of suspense, love, history, and magic that will keep you eagerly turning the pages late into the night. Even readers not normally drawn to the supernatural will be swept away by this book; it has everything a great adventure should have-and so much more.

  Anne Fortier

  Book, Adventure, Night

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• From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

  Athol Fugard

  Father, Avid, Two

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• You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

  Michael Koryta

  Forever, Stories, Want

  "Koryta details murder, a panther and a dangerous woman". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. June 5, 2011.

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• Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.

  Valerie Sayers

  Tragedy, Stories, Pleasure

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• Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.

  Philip Gerard

  Art, Writing, Pieces

  Philip Gerard (2000). “Writing a Book That Makes a Difference”, Story Press

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• 'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.

  Felicia Day

  Character, Views, Lasts

  "Felicia Day on why she loves The Last Of Us and BioShock Infinite". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2013.

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• The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Goal, Stories, Should

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• The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself fully invested in the characters despite the fact I know what is coming. I think it was this type of mastery of storytelling and the ability of bringing the audience so completely into another world that made me want to become a director.

  Nicholas Ozeki

  Character, Thinking, Directors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.

  Elijah Wood

  Moving, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• You have to think about good storytelling and characters first. Then hopefully, the rest of that stuff will follow, some more than others. But if you don't have a good film and strong characters, then you don't have anything down the road.

  Pete Docter

  Strong, Character, Thinking

  "A chat with Pete Docter. Writer and Director of Toy Story, Wall-E, Monsters, INC., and UP". Interview with David Medsker, www.bullz-eye.com. May 21, 2009.

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• I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Book, Writing, People

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• As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. But from the moment that you cannot even understand the storytelling or the music of other cultures anymore, then we become strangers to each other and the situation will become very complicated.

  Paulo Coelho

  Other Cultures, Bridges, Long

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• I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage of in that field. I'd like to experiment with telling a truly non-linear story.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Taken, Writing, Opportunity

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• We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that. That's one of the things that Joss Whedon excels at in his storytelling.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Humorous, Dark, Relax

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• I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict, and character development, which I find vital to my storytelling.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Character, Development, Narrative

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.

  Michael Lewis

  Hands, Stories, Facts

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I've been very passionate about storytelling ever since I was a kid. I really don't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor, and ever since I could remember, I had a really extravagant imagination.

  Inbar Lavi

  Kids, Imagination, Passionate

  Source: www.elle.com

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• ["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling.

  Rob Lowe

  Clever, Really Clever

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

  Jay Baruchel

  Weekend, Watches, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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