Best Storytelling Quotes

#1. In a weird way, I think I'm much better at oneshots than longform. So I try to focus on five or six-issue arcs. I have a real fondness for the one-shots because that's where I do my best storytelling.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#2. Be your best company.

A.D. Posey

#3. Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I'm not giving advice. I don't instruct. At my best, I delight. That's my job.

Ron Koertge

#4. Magician is the best storyteller in the world.

Amit Kalantri

#5. I think the idea that television has evolved to this place of real thematic richness and the fact that you no longer have to get 10 million people to watch your show in order to propagate its survival are the best things that have ever happened to storytelling in this medium.

Damon Lindelof

#6. Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#7. I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

Alex Turner

#8. As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business. I am a storyteller. Daydreaming is the best part of my job.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

C.S. Lewis

#10. We actually try our best to be non-biased, but for me, that was the best movie ["Sicario"], filmmaking-wise and storytelling-wise, and connected to me the most. I thought it was great.

John Krasinski

#11. We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

John P. Kotter

#12. I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

Stephen King

#13. In the end, it wasn't so much that there was an alternative narrative
there always was
but it came down to belief: Which one did you want to believe. Which one suited you best? Or, perhaps more to the point: Which one told the story you were already telling yourself?

Michael Paterniti

#14. Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.

Paul Di Filippo

#15. Be your best gift.

A.D. Posey

#16. The best philosophy was wrapped up in history. It was, in effect, storytelling from a particular era. The worst was the pure sort. University stuff.

Andrew Miller

#17. Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne claire artwork and fluid storytelling makes The Rainbow Orchid easily one of the best graphic novels of the year.

Bryan Talbot

#18. Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

Dan Hill

#19. I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

Kiefer Sutherland

#20. It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

Jose Padilha

#21. The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy.

A.D. Posey

#22. I know you've all heard the advice, "Show, don't tell." The best writers don't tell you, and quite frankly they don't just show you
they make you feel it, live it, taste it, touch it. Storytelling is about being in the moment with the characters.

Josh Lanyon

#23. The best writing is embarrassing; that's all there is to it.

A.D. Posey

#24. ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.

Film Crit Hulk!

#25. Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.

Andy Serkis

#26. In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

Roger Ebert

#27. Be the best you.

A.D. Posey

#28. What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

Charlotte Bronte

#29. I spent my childhood watching every scary movie that Hollywood ever made. And I think that gave me the best education for storytelling. It also made me want to reproduce the scary moments that I felt, sitting in a theater at the age of 5.

Tess Gerritsen

#30. You're a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."

"Beautiful and full of monsters?"

"All the best stories are.

Laini Taylor

#31. I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.

Eric Close

#32. All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the best they can, and that's what makes them really good at what they do, but then they also have to be a part of the socialist society, for the greater good.

Ray McKinnon