1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

Margherita Margheritone put the pot of water on the fire and the Wicked Witch emptied the sack into it and the little wash-bear jumped out and started biting both of them, went down into the yard and started eating the hens, and threw all the rubbish into the air.

While my father was out boozing, she'd read to me by the stub of a candle, a thread of soot twisting upwards from its pinched, meager flame. By her voice alone, she could raise up the old stories from the bones of their words and--lilting between shades of comedy and melodrama--turn the dreary space around me into a stage for my wildest imaginings.

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

I'm a master of story. Almost a living fiction myself, so resilient am I! Spider-Man beats me down, I rise! Daredevil imprisons me, I escape! That's because stories have power! He who controls the narrative controls the audience, and you're all the audience, every one of you. As they say, the world's a stage...

রাজা যায়, রাজা আসে। প্রজাও যায়, নতুন প্রজা আসে। কিছুই টিকে থাকে না। ক্ষুধার্ত সময় সবকিছু গিলে ফেলে, তবে গল্প গিলতে পারে না। গল্প থেকে যায়।

The Queen died. The King died.”“The Queen died. And the King died of a broken heart.”The first line was fact. The second line was a story. It placed the facts in context, added emotion and made us connect to it by making it memorable.

The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

Christian myth, reveals the truth that "the Christian was (and is) still like his forefathers a mortal hemmed into a hostile world.