Storytelling Quotes - Page 27

• 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.

  Larry Bird

  Kids, Son, Listening

  “Larry Bird: What I've Learned” by Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. January 6, 2009.

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• The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

  Paul Auster

  Essentials, Form, Jokes

  Paul Auster (2010). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews”, p.495, Macmillan

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• Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime fiction, but of fiction itself-of language, of storytelling. Time and again, his work just dazzles and humbles me. God bless Busted Flush for these glorious reissues. It's a service to readers everywhere, and a great gift.

  Megan Abbott

  Reading, Tomatoes, Fiction

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• The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.

  Matthew Weiner

  Intellectual, Lessons, Today

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• I would say I was challenging the system quite. But I like to think that if the choices I make are slightly unexpected or challenging to people, then that is good. We are definitely three fairly like-minded people in terms of what we value in scripts and in storytelling.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• What serialized cable dramas have given us is the opportunity to not simply tell the same story with slightly different words and different costumes, every week. people are really mining the ability of storytellers to tell a long form story that goes from A to Z, and to trust that an audience will follow that. If they miss it, over the course of the week, they can watch it online or buy the DVD. There are so many different ways of interacting with it. Storytelling in television is getting more complex and more nuanced.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Drama, Opportunity, Dvds

  Source: collider.com

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• Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Bridges, Gaps, Ideology

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• Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Imagination, Poet, Individual

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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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• For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people. Sometimes those real people are people in positions of great prominence or power or adverse situations, and sometimes it's just normal folks who help illuminate a situation, a place, a culture. And for me, that's always been the best way of telling a story.

  Jason Rezaian

  Real, People, Culture

  "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.

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• For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.

  Jason Rezaian

  Real, People, Stories

  "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.

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• I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is new. So have I brought anything new to it? Only in so far as no-one before has written about the characters I've invented in their particular situation.

  Erica Brown

  Writing, Character, Cutting

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work with and artists, I'm professional, and I bring my A-game every time.

  Hope Larson

  Passion, Writing, Artist

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• Storytelling is one of comics' esthetic hurdles at the moment, which was the novelist's problem 150 years ago: namely, to take comics from storytelling into that of "writing," the major distinction between the two to me being that the former gives one the facts, but the latter tries to recreate the sensation and complexities of life within the fluidity of consciousness and experience. As far as I'm concerned, that's really all I've been trying to do formally for the past decade or more with comics, and it's certainly time-consuming, since it has to be done with drawings, not words.

  Chris Ware

  Writing, Past, Giving

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• Writing a story starts out as a puzzle in your mind, of "What is it I'm fantasizing about right now that makes me think this is going to be worth years of work?" And you just keep pushing and trying to figure it out, and once you've hit on these resonances... Then as a screenwriter, it can be dangerous if you get too hooked on just finding things that resonate with each other, because then you risk getting into stuff that's too neat, and becomes stifled as storytelling. But you do feel like you're on the right track when you start to have a sense of what goes with what.

  Andrew Bujalski

  Writing, Thinking, Track

  Source: film.avclub.com

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