Mark Burnett Quotes

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

I like telling stories.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

I really love storytelling.

I'm just a story teller.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

I'm just a storyteller.

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

People love stories. They need stories.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.

I never saw myself as much of a storyteller.

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

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

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

I always like to tell a story.