#storytelling

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well. ↗

— Criss Jami

#artists #artists-life #creative #creativity #experiences

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller. ↗

— Robert McKee

#emotion #experience #mood #museums #story

The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never carry on right through the point where whatever it is that threatens your life actually takes it -- and get anybody to believe you. The world is full of sceptics. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#storytelling #experience

This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. His nesting places - the activities that are intimately associated with boredom - are already extinct in the cities and are declining in the country as well. With this the gift for listening is lost and the community of listeners disappears. For storytelling is always the art of repeated stories, and this art is lost when the stories are no longer retained. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#listening #relaxation #storytelling #art

People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights. ↗

— China Miéville

#storytelling

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories. ↗

— John Berger

#stories #storytelling #storytelling

In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#aspire #change #december #films #found

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#love #stories #storytelling #tell #thing

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. ↗

— Ben Okri

#fundamental #hints #human #imperfection #perfection

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling. ↗

— Holly Near

#behind #force #forward #great #leaping