Quotes about Storytelling

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.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.

If we are to use the Bible effectively, then we must use it the way God wrote it — in narrative form. Our team rejects the notion that the Bible is simply an encyclopedia of disconnected Bible verses. God's Word is less like a cookbook and more like a novel.

Explanation sets the need for further inquiry aside; narrative invites us to rethink what we thought we knew.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

For a novelist, being 'too emotional' is often a good thing. The only thing you have to sell is your emotional experiences.

I always thought of episode 1 as the prologue and episode 2 as our chapter 1 for 'Loki.'