Damon Lindelof Quotes

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.

There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

I am attracted to myths.

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

Storytelling has always been one of my great pleasures.

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations.

I appreciate hearing different stories. It inspires me.

George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

Stories live forever. Storytellers don't.