Quotes about Storytelling
Ruthie handed me a leather-bound notebook and said she wanted me to fill it with everything I could remember.
- Chris Fabry
Comics deal with fundamental archetypes. We've been called the myth-makers of the modern age.
- Chris Claremont
I can say that my narrative project is as difficult today as it was then.
- Toni Morrison
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.
- Mark Twain
It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.
- JM Coetzee
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
- Laurence Sterne
Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
- Jerry B. Jenkins
One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
- Ronald Reagan
I don't like message movies either.
- Don Cheadle
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
- Jerry B. Jenkins
Human beings enjoy the myth of romance.
- David Starkey