Storytelling Quotes

"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart" "A world without stories would be a world without love" "The story is everything, which means that it's always something of an adventure to tell it" "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." "We live for books" "To survive, you must tell stories" "The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." "One is allowed to change the past, but only in the libraries." "The power of a writer is that he is a powerful figure in the world" "Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter" "It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels." "The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink" "Every story has three parts: The beginning, the middle, and the twist." "I think audiences get too much information, and they’re not feeling enough when they go to a movie." "It’s very important that the film reveals something to you about the artist that makes it."