Storytelling Quotes - Page 6

• Science is the storytelling of our time.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Education, Our Time

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• Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

  George Lucas

  Character, Two, Plot

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• Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis of all creativity. Creativity is being able to see beyond what is readily apparent. It is seeing a new answer to an old problem.

  Carol Birch

  Creativity, Eye, Imagination

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• We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions... In our serious society, storytelling is seen as being soft. But people process the world through story.

  Daniel H. Pink

  People, Stories, World

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• Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

  Margaret Atwood

  Online, Coming Back, Form

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why they are who they are, and how we all relate to each other, despite the fact that we may not think that we do.

  Thomas Sadoski

  Thinking, People, May

  Source: collider.com

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• Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

  John Jakes

  Positive, Being Yourself, Believe

  FaceBook post by John Jakes from Sep 19, 2014

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• What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me within the constraints of storytelling. And I have narrowly defined storytelling.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Moving, Fiction, Stories

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

  Jo Nesbo

  Art, Home, Thinking

  "Jo Nesbø: 'I am a vulture'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Western

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

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• I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

  E. L. James

  Bars, Term

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.

  Joe Sabia

  Book, Technology, Years

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• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  Jack White

  Broken, Hip Hop, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.

  Thane Rosenbaum

  Zero, Order, Justice

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• The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; it’s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a writer seems to me to be an optimistic act.

  Tobias Wolff

  Art, Writing, Optimistic

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• People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Storytelling, which is the basis of the novel, has always existed and always will.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  People, Different, Shapes

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• We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

  Jerome Bruner

  Children, Stories, Language

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• We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

  Paula Rego

  Way, Stories, World

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• Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.

  Larry Brooks

  Character, Essence, Quests

  Larry Brooks (2011). “Story Engineering”, p.77, Writer's Digest Books

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• I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Believe, Age, Limitation

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2010). “The Prince Of Mist”, p.1, Hachette UK

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• All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has a way of leaping among persons, as it does at parties and celebratory gatherings. Storytelling always begets storytelling. It is difficult to watch others at play without wanting to join them. This is not only a human phenomenon, for researchers have consistently noted that animals at play are often imitated by other animals. So wherever it is possible to initiate a playful activity, it will have a good chance of replicating itself through other parts of the system.

  Joseph Rusling Meeker

  Party, Animal, Play

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• It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.

  William Kittredge

  Art, War, Believe

  William Kittredge (2002). “Owning It All: Essays”, Graywolf Pr

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• The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade and its consequences on three continents. This book is full of fresh ideas and astounding detail; it is at once great storytelling, punctuated with real people and voices, and an unblinking analysis of numerous great questions and paradoxes about the power of slavery in creating the Atlantic world over four centuries.

  David W. Blight

  Real, Book, Ideas

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• So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point

  Brian De Palma

  Art, Trying, Lost

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• But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore

  Brian De Palma

  Thinking, Numbers, Noir

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