Jack Lowden Quotes

For me, the best moments in storytelling are the ones where I feel I'm discovering something.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

I'm constantly surprised by human nature and humanity. And I think that's why I love what I do: because I love to story-tell and bring new characters to life.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

I look for stories everywhere.

I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

I take inspiration from my life but only twenty per cent is real the rest is all made up.

To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.