Storytelling Quotes

"Three chords and the truth that's what a country song is " "Books are a uniquely portable magic" "We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones" "But writing is the act of trawling the shadows to find the heart shaped glare" "We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay" "When you’re writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can’t just be out of the air" "Why do you laugh? Change the name and the story is about you" "I'm a storyteller. That's all I've ever tried to be." "You write your own narrative" "To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don’t buy into the notion that because it’s fantastic, it should be unrealistic" "I find that in the process of making a film you’re constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning" "When you are dealing with approximately two-plus hours every few years to do a story, you don’t have the luxury of having excessive screen time to explore… supporting characters" "To keep the readers interested, and coming back, and to keep coming up with new and exciting ways to present stories… is an absolutely incredible accomplishment" "If you talk about genres… I can bring you many comic books representing each genre" "They [comic books] are not a genre… they are a source of great stories and colorful characters" "I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it." "It’s about creating content, pushing boundaries, and making people talk" "Fiction is the truth inside the lie" "A short story is a different thing altogether" "To live in a world without stories would be unbearable"