Storytelling Quotes

"The story's always better if you tell the truth" "I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with little screenplays and ideas and potential novels." "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." "Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth" "I love storytelling because it connects us in ways we might not expect." "I want to tell stories that resonate with people and make them feel seen and heard." "Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty" "The best part of a good movie is the moment it ends; you're left hungering for more." "Nothing has really happened until it has been described" "I'm not interested in telling you what happened to me, I'm interested in telling you what happened to them." "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." "Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners." "Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations" "Stories are a way to give meaning to life. Without stories, life would be nothing more than a series of disconnected events" "You can make anything by writing." "I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself." "I’ve always been interested in the concept that every film is a puzzle to be solved" "I’ve always believed that endings are the hardest things to get right, but they’re the most important thing because that’s what stays with people" "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales"