Storytelling Quotes

Let your story breathe and be what it really is.

Take your ego out of your story.

Life is sacred story.

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.

These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.

He prefers his adventures second hand.

I need to tell you a story, a tale of fate and emergence.

Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.

They say Night is all black in the faceAll that glitters only adds to the graceNo attempt to success ever succeedsWithout one slogging through the blackened days"- Poem "The Beauty of Night

There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.

She looked at the boy. He knew her weakness for storytelling. And it was, after all, only a story. Still, she wished he had chosen a happier one.

Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.

In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.

Hip-hop is storytelling.

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

Facts & figures go to the brain. And, the brain tends to forget . Stories go straight to the heart. They make us feel. And, the heart remembers.

In these story telling moments we equip our children, with crucial solution tools for life. To deprive them of these necessary teachable moments is like denying a carpenter the tools of his trade.

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.

This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.

Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.

You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though you might be telling two stories at once.

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.

Stories are a communal currency of humanity.

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.

The stories we are destined to tell find us.

Are infinite possibilities a storyteller's worst enemy or best friend? I'd say a bit of both really and one must be grateful for this paradox.

Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So once upon a time a land in the shore...

She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time." An incantation.

Stories help us remember what we never want to forget.

Come with me to the mountains. Every rock there tells a story.

We need stories in order to understand ourselves, for good or bad, to be inspired or horrified, it's how we cope with being human and how we decide what type of person we will become.

Did you know that writing stories down kills them?Of course it does, words aren't meant to be stiff, unchanging things.

And she cries even more, for the way the universe keeps throwing her together with the players in her son's tragedy, like handfuls of dust.

I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get.

These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.

What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.

I don’t want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?

Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.

In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.

A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.