Brandon Sanderson Quotes

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.

Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

To this day, if you gave me $1,000, I really can't stand up - You can tell a joke. You're a good storyteller and a good joke teller.

I was always the classroom clown, and the teachers allowed me a certain latitude. The assemblies were good, and the headmaster used to tell little stories; I loved the idea of communal storytelling.

I'm just a guy entertaining people and telling the truth and teaching them science.

As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh.

Getting a laugh was what I'd been doing with my family and at school since the age of three.

But I was always comedic and would tell stories and use a lot of expressions.

I Twitter quite a bit, and try to send out some funny stories.

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.

Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't all that deadly all the time, but while you're having fun, tell the truth. If every word of a column is deadly serious, I can't read it. It makes me throw up.

It's always a long goddamn story. Every time you ask anyone anything really important, it's a long story.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories.

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.