Story Telling Quotes

Story Telling Quotes
1. Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
Robert McAfee Brown
2. I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the
oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I
saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how
we can deal with living.
Ishmael Beah
3. The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising,
instructing, challenging the status quo.
Therese Fowler
4. Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and
setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the
storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
Douglas Coupland
5. 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
6. The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection.
Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
Ben Okri
7. I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I
am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
8. From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of
their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth
get in the way of a good story.
Adam Savage
9. From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be
pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is
magic to storytelling.
Lynn Collins
10. Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault.
But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the
great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.
Henning Mankell
11. Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell
young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten
by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by
trial and error.
Margaret Atwood
12. Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather
around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then
another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a
collective process.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
13. I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of
Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the
clubs and raves.
Irvine Welsh
14. I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this postmodern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's
something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay
with us.
John C. Reilly
15. I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told
stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.
Khaled Hosseini
16. After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the
world.
Philip Pullman
17. There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for
the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the
language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has
both a good story and good words, treasure that book.
Stephen King
18. If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works
19. Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in
our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can
be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning,
middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.
Doris Lessing
20. To hell with facts! We need stories!
Ken Kesey

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