Storytelling Quotes
The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.
Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.
I believe stories have a will of their own, one that surpasses in volition that of their teller. In realms of Storytelling, stories control their bearers, and eventually, their hearers as well.
I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring at you.
Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.
ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.
Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.
...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.
I must have been chosen because I know it all from beginning to end. I am certainly not the story itself. I am only the grass that tattles on the wind.
It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli.
The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence.
No matter how shitty things are, you can always get a song out of it.
If you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict
Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doin
People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not.""Shouldn't the storyteller believe it.""The storyteller should tell it.
You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better themselves. Give them a stranger's life, and then they're content.
I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.
There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven.
There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.
Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality.
When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.
The Book CharmYour Story Will Never End As Long As Your Chapters Are Shared
A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.
The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.
As far as I’m concerned, story is everything. It is why we get up in the morning and how we choose who to take to bed at night. Story is the thread that weaves together the very fabric of reality.
The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama.
Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves.
Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.
As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business. I am a storyteller. Daydreaming is the best part of my job.
Storytelling is powerful when creating a vision to your dreams. It's impactful when you inspire others by your integrity and by the promises delivered
Technology allows more people to tell more stories in more ways. Storytelling knows no boundaries. I believe print and web can work beautifully together.
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.
it was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory." p 380
A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world. (Peter Nimble)
Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an ancient discipline and vocation to which everyone is called.
Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher..
Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in allplaces, in all times.
