storytelling Quotes

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I get from young Christians who recognise this and enjoy it.

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones.