Storytelling Influence Quotes

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing.

You don't get 'The Unfinished Swan' or 'Shadow of the Colossus' or even Telltale's 'Walking Dead' until you've sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like 'Metal Gear Solid'.

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. All of my films are a collection of small stories that have been told to me.

The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.

I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

Never underestimate the power of a good story.

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

Every story takes its toll on me and leaves an impression on me.

When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer.