Storytelling Quotes - Page 32

• what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

  Erica Jong

  Secret, Doe, Bottles

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Nike, Games

  "How to Cash In on Your Passion: An Interview With Gary Vaynerchuk". Interview with Rich Brooks, www.fastcompany.com. October 12, 2009.

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• To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

  Rumer Godden

  Fall, Stories, Way

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• Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Writing, Once Upon A Time, Matter

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• There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from that terrific opening sequence), any sense of raw, intuitive drama.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Drama, Character, Epic

  "'There Will Be Blood'". www.salon.com. December 26, 2007.

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• Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Animal, Tools, Thumbs

  Marion Dane Bauer (1992). “What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Stories, Way

  "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

  Chip Esten

  Song, Clever, Writing

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• A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that Silent Cargo is getting out there for people to see.

  Ellen Wong

  People, Tvs, Film

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• The love and support from the Witches of East End fans continues to blow us away and renews our faith that storytelling matters, strong female characters matter, and messages about faith and hope matter. I love this family. I love this story. And to be part of a show that has inspired and touched so many people's hearts is a true blessing.

  Rachel Boston

  Strong, Character, Heart

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• I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

  Scott Eastwood

  Grew Up, Movie Sets, Happens

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

  William Maxwell

  Memories, Mind, Goes On

  William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

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• Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.

  Shawn Hatosy

  Clever, Littles, Patient

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• I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

  Andy Serkis

  Believe, Thinking, Theatre

  "Andy Serkis on Enslaved and acting in video games". Interview with Jack Arnott, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2010.

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• I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.

  Abby Huntsman

  News, Scene

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling.

  Alan Sepinwall

  Superhero, Tvs, Places You Go

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a church links to a story, brands have the potential to build holistic identities.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Religious, Practice, Hymns

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other night which was extremely non-linear, where you flash back and flash forward in ways that certainly keeps you on your toes as the audience. There's not much of that courage with the storytelling in our Maigret film.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Fashion, Drama, Thinking

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.

  Will Smith

  Character, Way, Stories

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• I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Becoming, World

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• I do like 'Munich'.It's a really wonderful film. I mean, there's 'Schindler's List', there's 'Saving Private Ryan'. But 'Munich' - of all the other films, Munich would be the one that's really, really amazing storytelling.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Mean, Saving Private Ryan, Would Be

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Gareth [Edwards] was very open to just shaping the performances and the scenes to fit what was happening with the actors and the storytelling that was emerging.

  Alan Tudyk

  Actors, Fit, Scene

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most of which are at least seven years or more old.

  Roxane Gay

  Men, Years, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

  Solange Knowles

  Albums, Tables, Lineage

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It is a great vehicle for storytelling, especially for a certain kind of exhaustively reported, painstakingly fact-checked, and beautifully produced narrative.

  Clara Jeffery

  Narrative, Facts, Kind

  Source: www.politico.com

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