Quotes about Storytelling

What I'm really proud of Beyonce and Solange, they understand the importance of creating the narrative. It's all about the narrative and how you position yourself with your narrative.

Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety. At any rate that afforded me some comfort.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

If you're going to create a character, the tools you use to make that character 'real' are the lives you see around you. The people you listen to on the street. The emotions you see on faces and bodies while you're sitting... in a Starbucks, watching the world go by.

Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.

I don't worry about the survival of the novel. We're a storytelling species.

knew policy; I knew how to consume and process information. It took a while to figure out that my problem wasn't a lack of a ten-point plan. Rather, it was my general inability to boil issues down to their essence, to tell a story that helped explain an increasingly uncertain world to the American people and make them feel that I, as president, could help them navigate it.

Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comic. Not to be confused with real life.

The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention

Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comics.