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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

Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician. — Amit Kalantri

O Grandpa turned the rusty latchkey of his magnificent remembery and set free a symphony of stories — Glenda Millard

The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy. — A.D. Posey

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

I like to apply storytelling methods and techniques to try to frame the story in an interesting way, but you can never control what's happening. — Jorgen Leth

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

If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger. — Jay Baer

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

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture. — Andy Serkis

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories. — Alan Kay

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

While I don't like violent programs per se, I do like good storytelling, which made me a fan of shows like Breaking Bad and American Horror Story. — Hank Stuever

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

Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life. — A.D. Posey

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories. — Mia Couto

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well. — Criss Jami

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us. — John P. Kotter

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

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.. — Patti Davis

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

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. — Clara Chow

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 am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family. — Susan Stroman

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

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it. — A.D. Posey

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver. — A.D. Posey

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

Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it. — Amit Kalantri

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives. — A.D. Posey

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

At least I'm not afraid, and no one will ever call me boring. — A.D. Posey

And that's when I knew she was not doing this on purpose; that her stories came from a place deep within her, beyond thought and formal language. — Clara Chow

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. — Philip Pullman

You are happy and kind; therefore, you are successful. — A.D. Posey

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead. — Tim O'Brien

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

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. — Dawn Gluskin

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid. — David Chase

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

The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning. — Veena Sud

Listen to yourself and you are heard. — A.D. Posey

Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look. — A.D. Posey