Storytelling Quotes

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. (Hannah Arendt)
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. View quote
Walter Benjamin
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. View quote
Tom Brokaw
Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game. View quote
Gary Gygax
[About the end of the The L Word] Everything has its cycle. I think it's appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on. View quote
Jennifer Beals
...The L Word reaffirmed that good storytelling has a way of creating community. Fans everywhere have been connecting with each other online, in public and at home-viewing parties. View quote
Jennifer Beals
As a fiction writer, I don't speak message. I speak story. Sure, my story means something, but if you want to know what it means, you have to ask the question in terms appropriate to storytelling. Terms such as message are appropriate to expository writing, didactic writing, and sermons-different languages from fiction. The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
"This sucks on so many levels." - Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought. View quote
Roger Ebert
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. View quote
Adrienne Rich
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. (Malcolm Gladwell)
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling. View quote
James Berardinelli
I liked Truffaut a lot, I've felt a lot of admiration for his way to address the audience, and his storytelling.... La nuit américaine is adorable, and another film I like to see is L'enfant sauvage, with its fine humanism. View quote
Ingmar Bergman
I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it's some aspect of myself that's coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho. View quote
Michael Shannon
Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a church links to a story, brands have the potential to build holistic identities. View quote
Martin Lindstrom
I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now. View quote
Richard Condon
Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too. View quote
Howard Gardner
Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe. View quote
Henning Mankell
Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process. View quote
Bradley Cooper
Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase. (Dave Morris)
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. View quote
Ian Somerhalder
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling. View quote
Neil Jordan
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. View quote
Alden Ehrenreich