Storytelling Quotes
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If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.
Vince Gilligan -
I really love storytelling.
Larry Wilmore
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Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
J. M. Coetzee -
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
Ed Sheeran -
Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.
Christopher Meledandri -
I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
E. L. James -
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
Plato
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Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.
ASAP Rocky -
The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
Nate Powell -
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
Quentin Tarantino -
Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
R. J. Cutler -
Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
Gary Gygax -
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
Carlton Cuse
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I think that it's important for a film that's in 3D that the filmmakers create the movie from a staging and scene planning standpoint with the dimensional space as one of their storytelling components.
Christopher Meledandri -
For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.
Michael Schur -
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!
William Shakespeare -
Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.
Serge Schmemann -
We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.
Ang Lee -
Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
Karin Slaughter
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
Pat Conroy -
Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
Ted Lange -
I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.
Nicole Kidman -
When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
Aristotle