Storytelling Quotes - Page 36

• You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Moving, Self, Blood

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Jul 15, 2016

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• Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

  Donald Davis

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• Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Skills, Underrated

  Twitter post from

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• Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

  Douglas Coupland

  Character, Creative, Patterns

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• The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Memories, Lying, Grandchildren

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Order, Stories

  1979 The White Album,'The White Album, 1'.

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• Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

  Erik Adigard

  Philosophy, Design, Crafts

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• Nowadays I'm really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you know what else I miss? Super powers. Why is it now that everybody's like "I can reverse the polarity of your ions!" Like in one big flash everybody's Doctor Strange. I like the guys that can stick to walls and change into sand and stuff. I don't understand anything anymore. And all the girls are wearing nothing, and they all look like they have implants. Well, I sound like a very old man, and a cranky one, but it's true.

  Joss Whedon

  Girl, Wall, Men

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

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• All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Book, Writing

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.76, Cornell University Press

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• I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

  Armistead Maupin

  Thinking, Intuition, Instinct

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• But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

  Jane Campion

  Responsibility, Thinking, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

  Richard Linklater

  Animal, Ideas, Nuts

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• The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Way, Internet, Natural

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt on 'The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories'". Interview with Yvonne Villarreal, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 5, 2011.

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• A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.

  Linda Hogan

  Song, Animal, Stories

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• What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.

  William Maxwell

  Memories, Lying, Emotional

  William Maxwell (2010). “So Long, See You Tomorrow”, p.28, Random House

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• Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.

  Doris Lessing

  Song, Humanity, Legacy

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• Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

  Kevin Spacey

  Advancement, Shifting, Sand

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• Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

  Holly Near

  Mistake, Force, Behinds

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• I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Stories, Kind, Love Story

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• As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.

  LeVar Burton

  Moving, Long, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

  Alan Moore

  Lying, Believe, Artist

  "V for Vendetta". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

  Lewis Carroll

  Patience, Adventure, Adventurous Life

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• If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

  Jay Baer

  Giving, Marketing, Stories

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• It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

  Walt Disney

  Communication, World, Limitless

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• All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Kids, Needs

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