Power of Storytelling Quotes

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way... people look at reality, then you can change it.

I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.

We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.

Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.

I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'... It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

As long as we have our stories there is hope.

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice. The proof of that is the ability of a dictator to snuff out the life of a writer.

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

Many sportsmen, like myself and my team-mates, artists, and musicians all have unique chances and responsibilities to make themselves heard. We have the possibility to reach the parts that political speeches will never reach.

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

We would meet truck drivers, and they were like, ''Orange Is the New Black' is my favorite show.' And we're like, 'What? This looks like a Red State, Trump-voting guy, and he loves 'Orange Is the New Black?'' I think that's the power of storytelling.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.