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What we want is a story that starts with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
Samuel Goldwyn— Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (9th edn,1989).
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
philip pullman
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
o. henry— "The Gold that Glittered"
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
Quentin Tarantino
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
maya angelou— I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
walter scott— Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Canto II, Stanza 22.
And thereby hangs a tale.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act IV, scene 1, line 60. Also found in Othello, Act III. 1; Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I. 4; As You Like it, Act II. 7.
This story will never go down.
Henry Fielding— Henry Fielding, Tumble-Down Dick, Air I.
Soft as some song divine, thy story flows.
homer— Homer, The Odyssey, Book XI, line 458. Pope's translation.
And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.
homer— Homer, The Odyssey, Book XII. Last line. Pope's translation.
It is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.
— II Maccabees, II. 32.
An' all us other children, when the supper things is done, we set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun a-list'nin' to the witch tales 'at Annie tells about an' the gobble-uns 'at gits you ef you Don't Watch Out!
james whitcomb riley— James Whitcomb Riley, Little Orphant Annie.
For seldom shall she hear a tale so sad, so tender, yet so true.
william shenstone— William Shenstone, Jemmy Dawson, Stanza 20.
With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
philip sidney— The Defense of Poesy.
It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned.
Chris stapleton— Chris Stapleton: Nashville's most promising outlaw (May 5, 2015)
To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.
Randy travis
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
walt disney— As quoted in "COSI exhibit explores world of cartoons" by Jeffrey Zupanic in The Review (2 August 2007)
I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
G-Eazy
All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read; which goes on forever; in which every chapter is better than the one before.
C. S. Lewis— The Last Battle (1956)
Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.
Michael Dirda— "Ghosts and ghouls to put a chill in your Christmas reading", Washington Post (December 16, 2015)
