Quotes about Storytelling

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I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination. — Karen Lord
When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins. — Sonia Rumzi
In stories, when someone behaves uncharacteristically, we take it as a meaningful, even pivotal moment. If we are surpri — Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative — Chester Elijah Branch, Holy Subtext: Meta-Narrative Trends in Cinema
Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I’m not giving advice. I don’t instruct. At my best, I delight. Tha — Ron Koertge
Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great — coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.
Marketing shouldn't feel like marketing. It should feel like a story. — Jim Signorelli, StoryBranding(TM) 2.0: Creating Standout Brands Through the Purpose of Story
Storytelling is about two things it's about character and plot. — George Lucas
The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern s — Gregory Benford
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling. — Barry Ritholtz
Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness. — Ira Glass
I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fa — Michel Hazanavicius
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling. — J. J. Abrams
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storyte — Ishmael Beah
Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don' — James Cameron