Storytelling Quotes - Page 33

• I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

  Robbie Robertson

  Feels

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• Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.

  Kevin Spacey

  Powerful, Communication, Skills

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• Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out something for a sequel or some cliff-hanger, that's not how I think of a satisfying story.

  Rian Johnson

  Wise, Thinking, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.

  Tinker Hatfield

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Source: solecollector.com

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• We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

  John P. Kotter

  Stories, Hearing, Chords

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• All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

  Harvey Cox

  Needs, Stories, Live By

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

  Studs Terkel

  People, Stories, Hungry

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• You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

  Erin Morgenstern

  Soul, Stories, May

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.386, Random House

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• People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

  Steven Spielberg

  Movie, Inspiring, Positivity

  "Science Fiction in Steven Spielberg's Suburbia". Interview with Chris Hodenfield, www.rollingstone.com. January 26, 1978.

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• Fairy tales are more than true.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dragons, Fairy Stories, Fairy Tale

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• Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  Walter Benjamin

  Death, Stories, Authority

  "Illuminations".

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• Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.

  Robert Moss

  Hunting, Forever, Stories

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• Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, New Beginnings

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Stories

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• Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

  Barry Lopez

  Inspire, Needs, Stories

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Aug 10, 2010

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Wise, Niece

  O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 4 (1913)

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• There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Play

  Stephen King (2017). “Hearts in Atlantis”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

  Jack Kirby

  Perfection, Style, Type

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

  Graham Greene

  Looks, Stories, Moments

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• I think I can work with different crews; I've worked with Bulgarian, Norwegian, Japanese, and Chinese crews. For me, the most important thing is the storytelling, and I'm really comfortable working with all kinds of languages.

  Isabel Coixet

  Thinking, Chinese, Important

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.

  Susan Stroman

  Father, Big Fish, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

  Barry Lopez

  Giving, Stories, Alive

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Dec 25, 2012

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• Sylvia Day spins a gorgeous adventure in A Touch of Crimson that combines gritty, exciting storytelling with soaring lyricism. Adrian is my favorite kind of hero--an alpha male angel determined to win the heart of his heroine, Lindsay, while protecting her from his lethal enemy. Lindsay is a gutsy, likable woman with paranormal abilities of her own, as well as a dedication to protecting humanity against a race of demonic monsters. This is definitely a book for your keeper shelf.

  Angela Knight

  Book, Hero, Adventure

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