Isobelle Carmody Quotes

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.

I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

People love stories. They need stories.

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

The desire to hear a story, and a story well told, triumphs over Internet, film and television sometimes.

I completely hold on to the idea that people are eager if not desperate to be told a good story.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

I tell stories. Because I believe you can do things that joke tellers can't do, and that is, bring your audience along.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

'Modelland' has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I'm excited that you'll be able to read about this magical world that's been living in my dreams for so many years.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.