Stories And Storytelling Quotes
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Stories And Storytelling Quotes & Sayings
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Man is the Storytelling Animal, and that in stories are his identity, his meaning, and his lifeblood.
— Salman Rushdie
Mom was the midwife who delivered stories to me.
— Rachael Hanel
O Grandpa turned the rusty latchkey of his magnificent remembery and set free a symphony of stories
— Glenda Millard
Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.
— Gregory Maguire
Talent and work ethic are nothing without belief.
— A.D. Posey
Great stories build relationships and make people care. Those two things are necessary to change anything.
— Shane Snow
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.
— Isabel Greenberg
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.
— Patrice Nganang
Energy will go into what you love, and what you love will grow. Go for a walk and watch it bloom.
— A.D. Posey
Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.
— A.D. Posey
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
— Diane Setterfield
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
— Sue Monk Kidd
All you can do is show people ... You tell stories that are true and compelling.
— Bruce Springsteen
Be careful what you say and do around a writer; your words and actions may become material.
— A.D. Posey
There is only Love and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream. — Vera Nazarian
The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.
— Harold Clarke Goddard
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.
— Damon Lindelof
Hold on to your heart and life will give you wings.
— A.D. Posey
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.
— Michael Shermer
Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.
— Amit Kalantri
Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.
— Mia Couto
To my words: There was once a wall between us. Now we walk together and greet the world.
— A.D. Posey
The announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.
— Margot Asquith
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.
— James Robertson
The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.
— J. Aleksandr Wootton
Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.
— Ashwin Sanghi
A writer's role was never just to tell stories, but to create a world to encompass and share with others.
— Solange Nicole
Stories are like islands, go out exploring and you're bound to get lost fantastically.
— M. Robert Randolph
People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.
— Neil Gaiman
I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.
— Philip Pullman
Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.
— Simon Sinek
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
— Ashwin Sanghi
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
— Marcus Sedgwick
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
— Jerome Bruner
Stories give color to black and white information.
— Todd Stocker
There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.
— Jaco Van Dormael
Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.
— Amit Kalantri
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
— Philip Pullman
Be an advocate for the people and causes important to you, using the most powerful tool only you have - your personal stories.
— John Capecci And Timothy Cage
Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers.
— A.D. Posey
No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
— Joyce Carol Oates
A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.
— Aisha Mirza
I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.
— Audrey Niffenegger
I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.
— Laini Taylor
The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
— Zainab Salbi
Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.
— Neil Jordan
I fight evil, and words are my weapons of choice.
— A.D. Posey
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.
— Salman Rushdie
Listen to yourself and you are heard.
— A.D. Posey
