storytelling Quotes

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

Sometimes, a writer's life alone can tell a story.

Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.

'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.

Nothing is more interesting in a novel or a play than an affair.

Literature more often tells the story of impulses we don't act on than of ones we do. I could joke about the Cain and Abel story with my brother without expecting him to be worried, though it's always possible he was more anxious than he let on.

That's the great test: if you're going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you've got to take it into the throat of grief. Can you make laughter and seriousness so close that they are the same thing?

Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

Literature is a house with many mansions.