Descriptive Storytelling Quotes

Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples' lives and their struggles.

When you're telling a story, you've got to give details.

It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.

I always say the wrestlers provide the music and the announcers write the lyrics. You have to feel what you're seeing and experiencing to write the best lyrics.

When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.

My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

I usually talk about clothes in terms of a story rather than a colour.

I'm basically talking to the audience, standing alone, describing the weather. It's very rudimentary, the dialogue, saying what the weather is like that day.