Quotes about Storytelling

There's just something creatively fulfilling about watching a movie and writing a song for it because it helps you put on another pair of shoes.

The key thing if you're a writer is to visualize the scene and convey it to the penciller and turn the penciller loose.

I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn't happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction.

I have always wanted to write a novel, and I tried many times but could never find the right story. One day, I was walking on the beach, and the idea for 'Groundswell' hit me. I went into the house and started writing and never stopped.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.

Myth is much more important and true than history.

there is a fourth function of myth, and this is the one that I think everyone must try today to relate to—and that is the pedagogical function, of how to live a human lifetime under any circumstances. Myths can teach you that.

Fiction is not the opposite of truth—indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.

Ona and Yagan people.

this grand and cacophonous chorus began when our primal ancestors told stories to themselves about the animals that they killed for food and about the supernatural world to which the animals seemed to go when they died.

In fact, though the books came slowly, he was a novelist to his bootlaces, an avid narrator who couldn't stop the story once it had started, who felt the terrors of existence so acutely that he had to tell them and tell them until he'd made them something else.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.