1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

To tell a story is always to translate the raw material into a specific shape, to select out of the boundless potential facts those that seem salient.

These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.

Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?

To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my creative contemplation of an opened mind...it is a storytelling venture on a blank page of paper and white canvases...it is reclaiming my life.

My TV show enraged people. I had prostitutes on, and I treated them like real people.... I was fired from Maclean's after I wrote a piece called 'Let's Stop Hoaxing The Kids About Sex'. Now I'm the 'beloved author,' the 'beloved historian of Canada,' an icon. I get standing ovations.... I never set out to be a patriot or a popular historian. I just liked storytelling. [interview promoting Marching as to War (2002)]

The deep map configures narratives. It is a matrix of intertexual storytelling, charting our movements through the landscape.

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.

Но если это история, пусть даже мысленная, значит, я её рассказываю кому-то. Самому себе истории не расскажешь. Всегда найдётся кто-то ещё.Даже если никого нет.

All fiction boils down to two plots: Either a stranger comes to town or someone goes on a trip.