Quotes about Storytelling

'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

What never yet was heard in tale or song, from old or modern bard, in hall or bower.

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.

I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.

My complaint simply concerns the decay of the art of lying.

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.

But the romance was there," I remonstrated. "I could not tamper with the facts." "Some

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.