Quotes about Storytelling

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.

I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.

My complaint simply concerns the decay of the art of lying.

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.

But the romance was there," I remonstrated. "I could not tamper with the facts." "Some

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

'Badalte Rishton ki Daastan' has enough masala to keep the audiences hooked from day one. It is a proper family drama.

What excites me, what attracts me, what gets me up in the morning is telling the next story and getting it out in front of readers and hoping they'll love it too.

And did she talk to him after that as usual? asked Sara Ray. Oh, yes, she was just the same as she used to be, said the Story Girl wearily. But that doesn't belong to the story. It stops when she spoke at last. You're never satisfied to leave a story where it should stop, Sara Ray.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.