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• Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

  James Nathan Miller

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• My style is colloquial storytelling. It’s the way we tell stories to one another – it’s not writerly, it’s not overdone.

  James Patterson

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• I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

  Khaled Hosseini

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• Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

  Anthony Horowitz

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• Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like ‘Grizzly Man’? It’s the sheer joy of storytelling – it’s the urge.

  Werner Herzog

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• The evil of storytelling is you’re trying to make the audience complicit in murder – ‘Kill the guy! Jump him!’ And then once you’ve done it, it’s like, ‘I’ve killed this guy, now what?’

  Bruno Heller

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• Storytelling has a narcotic power.

  Robert Harris

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• When you’re talking about Tim Burton, you’re talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It’s like he’s got his own genre.

  Jackie Earle Haley

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• Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.

  Kurt Sutter

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• I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it’s storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what’s right for the story, I enjoy doing it.

  Neil Strauss

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• The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while ‘Foster the People’ plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

  Maggie Stiefvater

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• In documentary films, you’re a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

  Garth Stein

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• The storytelling in ‘Doctor Who’ is quite universal.

  Matthew Robert Smith

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• Storytelling is my currency. It’s my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

  Kevin Smith

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• While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life… it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

  David Simon

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• I’m just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what’s going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it’s some aspect of myself that’s coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.

  Michael Shannon

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• I don’t think there’s a subject matter that can’t absorb 3-D; that can’t tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

  Martin Scorsese

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• I’m a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.

  Patrick Rothfuss

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• I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.

  Gabby Douglas

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• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  E. M. Forster

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