#storytelling

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people. ↗

— Charles Ray

#culture #storytelling #writing #art

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality. ↗

— Robert McKee

#art #awareness #chaos #confusion #emotion

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#storytelling #nature

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#purpose

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#storytelling #literature

I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die. ↗

— Roberta Williams

#any #believe #die #ever #game

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come. ↗

— John Green

#believer #big #big believer #classics #cold

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#any #books #crime #crimes #does

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#different #i #look #medium #movies

With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.' ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#clear #fantasy #fly #like #lose