Storytelling Quotes

"It is my aim, and every poet's, to have each work as a whole and each separate paragraph too, to be the whole story, with beginning, middle, climax, and end." "If a story is in you, it has to come out." "I try to give the audience a sense of the wide range of human experience" "A movie is a combination of a thousand little ideas- It's not just one big idea" "My story's just like yours, whatever you want it to be" "One of the exciting things about being an artist is that you’re able to invent new ways to tell stories that haven’t been told in that way before" "The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means." "To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme " "If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive" "Our worthiness, that core belief that we are enough, comes only when we live inside our story" "Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction" "That's the way the whole story unfolds." "Everybody has a story to tell." "All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them." "The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life." "Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." "Man is the storytelling animal." "Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told." "For me, it always goes back to the desire to tell a story, to entertain and to surprise people." "I’m fascinated by the idea of perception, that’s why I love the science fiction genre. It allows you to bend reality."