About Blake
This is a collection of meaningful quotes about story and storytelling.
Call me Blake. At my core, I’m a storyteller. I always have been. I love movies, and my method of storytelling is influenced by the narrative structure used by filmmakers.
I want to help you put your stories to work. Discover more about storytelling at WiltonBlake.com.
You also find me on Google Plus.
Call me Blake. At my core, I’m a storyteller. I always have been. I love movies, and my method of storytelling is influenced by the narrative structure used by filmmakers.
I want to help you put your stories to work. Discover more about storytelling at WiltonBlake.com.
You also find me on Google Plus.
Whenever there’s a camera around, a video or film camera, it’s a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
I don’t like plots. I don’t know what a plot means. I can’t stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning — you know, ‘beginning, middle and end.
The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative serves the needs of everyone everywhere.
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We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.
The key to a healthy society is a thriving community of storytellers.
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I tell a story, and therefore I exist.
Story is fluid and it belongs to nobody.
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Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.
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I can’t promise my child a life without bias—we’re all biased—but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.
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We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.
What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.
A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.
An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.
