Storytelling Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• I want to do a stripped-down album. That style is actually where my heart is - storytelling and just letting the voice and the lyrics talk for themselves. I still want to write the perfect song and sing it in the most honest, undressed way. But I feel like I have to gather more experiences and more layers in my voice. I have to live more to be able to tell this tale. So I'm saving my folk record. I have a feeling nobody will understand it.

  Lykke Li

  Song, Writing, Heart

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.

  Tim Walker

  Photography, Dream, Fashion

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

  Joe Sabia

  Book, Technology, Years

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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'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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• My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

  Eric Bana

  Writing, Creative, Television

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• I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

  Sophia Bush

  Teacher, Writing, School

  "Girl Crush Alert: How Sophia Bush Is Using Her Voice to Make a Difference" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 15, 2013.

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• I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche

  Tom Selleck

  Opportunity, Thinking, Risk

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• The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Book, Different, Looks

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• There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

  Greg Kinnear

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Greg Kinnear and an obsessive inventor". Interview with Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2008.

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• One of the things about being on Twitter, for me, is mostly about just being on the pulse of what people are interested in, what people are doing and what people are looking for. I look at entertainment projects and storytelling and I really try to think about what people want.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl Interview KILLERS". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 23, 2010.

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• Everyone who's ever met Guillermo Del Toro knows that he's the most generous, creative, mind-bogglingly wonderful man. And I was so lucky that he had seen Storytelling and he asked me to do Hellboy. And then I watched Devil's Backbone and I was blown away.

  Selma Blair

  Men, Creative, Lucky

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• With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.'

  Melissa Rosenberg

  People, Fantasy, Sci Fi

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• I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Technique, Depth

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Jul 06, 2013

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• The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

  Martin Scorsese

  Moving, Important, Sound

  "What Inspires Martin Scorsese". Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

  Ed Sheeran

  Wicked, Fans, Stories

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

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• The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

  Matt Smith

  Doctors, Universal, Doctor Who

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• I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Mean, Done, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

  Charlotte Rampling

  Character, Directors, Depth

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• The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week, or a baby born in a barn without proper medical supervision, these stories often feature miracles. Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see, and this holiday story features any number of miracles, depending on your point of view.

  Daniel Handler

  Baby, Holiday, Views

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• Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspirational, Writing, Kids

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.102, Bantam

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