An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns - but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver.
Fairy tales have been with us for a very long time.
One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the come to me.
Always choose love over fear.
Facts & figures go to the brain. And, the brain tends to forget . Stories go straight to the heart. They make us feel. And, the heart remembers.
Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
The stories we are destined to tell find us.
Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.
All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.
Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation by models of...
A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music
No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See me! Look at me! Look at who I am! Look at who I want you to think I am!
If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at loo...
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is ro...
When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.
Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
داستانها هرگز به پایان نمی رسند. راوی ست که معمولا صدایش را در نقطه ی جذاب و هنرمندانه قطع می کند؛ کلا همه اش همین است.
In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success
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