Storytelling Quotes - Page 12

A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

I have noticed that when people tell their own stories, often it has less to do with wanting to communicate an idea to another than with clarifying an emotion to themselves. Or when the subject of the story is beloved and missing, as a way to make them here and alive.

Remember, when we're lost in a story, we're not passively reading about something that's happening to someone else.

Lisa Cron

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Style jazzes up your canvas.

Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life.

Art is everywhere.

All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.

Every work of art tells a story.

I love a good 2,000 year old storytelling fresco!

Joy Baer

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people a melody of rudimentary experiences and respond to a stabilizing tune strung together with a shared ethos. We walk in parallel strides with our brethren seeking out equivalent affirmations of our being. We long to shout out to the world that we once walked this earth; we seek to leave in our wake traces of our pithy habitation. Our unfilled longing propels us into committing senseless acts of self-sabotage and then we desperately seek redemption from our slippery selves by building monuments to the human spirit. We employ a bewildering blend of conscious and unconscious materials to construct synoptic testaments to our temporal existence. We labor on the canvas of our choosing to scrawl our inimitable mark, fanatically toiling to escape a sentence of total obliteration along with our impending mortality.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.

Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.

Arthur C. Clarke

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

Eugene H. Peterson

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.

The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.

Storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are.

Writing is like breathing for my soul.

The personal screenplay- where you dive into the terrifying depths of your soul, unearth the most intimate details about yourself, and put it on paper for the world to see. Proceed with caution, for madness lies ahead.

A writer’s uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader.

Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway.

Give all of life’s oxygen to the fire that is your soul.

Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer.

Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul.

Epiphanies awaken the soul.

If you don’t think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.

Write what speaks to your soul.

Close your eyes. Hear the silent snow. Listen to your soul speak.

Crying cleanses the soul.

Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.

That which is cool is driven by the soul.

When your heart is open, your eyes see the beauty that is all around you.

We are artists. When we can’t find the beauty, we create it.

Breathe in the beauty all around you.

Time unfolds beauty, wonder, and mystery to reveal the auspicious tapestry of life.

With grace and beauty, feel.

Find beauty in the madness.

Everyone will say I'm insane, but I don't care, Rose. Is it insane to marry the girl I love? A girl with golden brown hair, with gifts of beauty and goodness and storytelling?

Melanie Dickerson

Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my meagre talent for storytelling, in even trying to put her beauty into words. That would far exceed my capabilities, so I'll refrain from mentioning whether she was a blonde or a brunette or a redhead, or whether her hair was long or short or curly or smooth as silk. I shall also refrain from the usual comparisons where her complexion was concerned, for instance milk, velvet, satin, peaches and cream, honey or ivory, Instead, I shall leave it entirely up to your imagination to fill in this blank with your own ideal of feminine beauty.

Stories change the world.

Intuition is truth.

When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing.

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

Charlotte Brontë

Maybe your past isn't perfect. Maybe it was brutal. Maybe you were brutal. Maybe you've got more scars than you thought one skin could hold. You can't linger on those thoughts. You will drown in them. After all, it's only an interesting backstory if you can get past it.

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