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“Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.”

Kind Has Beens Wall Drawing Storytelling Visuals Cavemen Visual Storytelling

“Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, creative storytelling, edited scriptures, etc. No magic required.”

“While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.”

Thinking Way Feels Littles Doe Bits Little Bit Meaningful Storytelling

Author:David Simon

“It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.”

People Communication Skills Areas Extraordinary Storytelling Communication Skills Terrific Great Day

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“Storytelling is at the heart of life... In finding our own story, we assemble all the parts of ourselves. Whatever kind of mess we have made of it, we can somehow see the totality of who we are and recognize how our blunderings are related. We can own what we did and value who we are, not because of the outcome but because of the soul story that propelled us.”

Writing Heart Kind Made Soul Stories Values Findings Storytelling Mess Outcomes Related Who We Are Totality

Author:Marion Woodman

“I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.”

Children Book Design Love Story Storytelling Graphic Graphic Design Children's Books

Author:Colleen Haskell

“We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.”

Needs Numbers Goes On Storytelling

Author:Ang Lee

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.”

World Quality Directors Method Details Storytelling

Author:Roger Ebert

“Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.”

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Author:David Gemmell

“"The Lucky One" is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.”

Heart Book Romance Novel Ought Reader Lucky Storytelling Being True Sparks Romance Novel Persuasive Nicholas Spark

Author:Roger Ebert

“Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.”

World Profession Storytelling Superstitions Trickery

Author:Danny Harris

“I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out”

People Speak Responsibility Influence Storytelling Speaks Out

Author:Demi Lovato

“One of the aspects I like about the film is that there is a kind of emotional, psychological discussion during the storytelling, ... Before taking a drug, go through yourself, experience yourself, all your hopes and fears in your own time. Before the pharmacology, do the psychology.”

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Author:Keanu Reeves

“Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.”

Stories Values Belief Share Storytelling Worthwhile

Author:Simon Sinek

“There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange.”

Said Film Unique Critics Storytelling Orange Rope Hitchcock

Author:Martin Scorsese

“One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.”

Feels Stories Hearing Storytelling Excitement Untold Stories

Author:John Hope Franklin

“Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my story.”

Heart Children Stories Storytelling Bored

Book:Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity

Source: Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity

“Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.”

Stories Age Able Authority Storytelling

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.”

Writing Stories Passion Surprise Storytelling

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“People have forgotten how to tell a story.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.”

Thinking World Littles Beautiful Tales Storytelling Very Beautiful

Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that. They told stories, like the story of Noah.”

People Knows World Children Said Stories Four Storytelling

Author:Don Hewitt

“My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.”

Firsts Art Stories Mother Three Born Natural Four Lessons Tradition Technique Storytelling Kitchen Storyteller Telling Stories Effortless Oral Tradition

Author:Paule Marshall

“Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which we live.”

Stories Broken Healthy Storytelling Replaced Healed Diseased

Author:Daniel Taylor

“Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.”

Moments Stories Gone Bird Flying Storytelling Bird Flying

Author:P. L. Travers

“What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.”

People Kind Stories Depends Storytelling

Author:Chinweizu Ibekwe

“Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.”

Enough Stories Memories Holy Structure Definitions Invention Storytelling Narrative Arranging

Book:An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us

Source: An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us

“A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.”

World Stories Song Animal Existence Creation Accounts Storytelling Unheard Unsaid

Author:Linda Hogan

“The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.”

Mean Stories Events Roots Series Storytelling Narrative

Author:James M. Kouzes

“The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.”

Ends Problem Memories My Own Results Myth Storytelling Accurate Revising Modifying

Author:Li-Young Lee

“A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.”

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Book:The diary of Antoine Roquentin

Source: The diary of Antoine Roquentin

“All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.”

People Stories Shows Can Do Storytelling Compelling

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.”

People Years Has Beens Ideas War Stories Evil Stars Issues Loyalty Storytelling Theme Good And Evil Chords

Author:George Lucas

“I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.”

Knows Stories Storytelling Things In Life Bland

Author:Orlando Bloom

“You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.”

“Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.”

Heart Kind Jobs Fiction Storytelling Telling The Truth Paradox

Author:Jeremy Northam

“When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.”

Results Storytelling Decadence

Author:Aristotle

“A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.”

Book Behinds Storytelling Melody Picture Books

Author:Margaret Wise Brown

“I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it's some aspect of myself that's coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.”

People Ifs World Kind Ends Facts Force Dark Pay Attention Seeing Quiet Aspect Storytelling Pay Attention Odd Psycho Incorporating Dark Forces

Author:Michael Shannon

“Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.”

Ifs Want Giving Stories Actors Love Is Interesting Storytelling

Author:Aaron Stanford

“My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.”

Has Beens Book Acting Secret Love Story Storytelling Enjoyed Realistic Antithesis

Author:Aaron Stanford

“Storytelling is about listening in any media.”

Media Listening Storytelling

Author:Chris Vance

“Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.”

Believe Heart Facts Stories Truth I Believe Forever Learning My Heart Storytelling Generosity Telling The Truth

Author:Ed Sabol

“Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.”

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Author:Brian Michael Bendis

“Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject.”

People Way Feels Littles Film Term Environment Groups Subjects Independent Storytelling Someday Relaxed Small Groups

Author:Chris Wedge

“I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.”

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Book:Interviews

Source: Interviews

“Storytelling is the oldest form of education.”

Form Library Storytelling

Book:Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland

Source: Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland

“The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.”

People Ifs Way Writing Book Character Stories Saws Effects Draws Storytelling Compelling Backbone

Author:Dick Wolf

“Theatre, film and television are all modes of storytelling, and many of us are fortunate enough to move freely among them without feeling that we've 'left' or need to 'go back' to one or the other. In fact, if the theatre is to avoid a brain drain, this kind of fluidity is increasingly necessary.”

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Author:Theresa Rebeck

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