Top Storytelling Quotes

Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.

we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves

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 t...

There will always be reservations, things one must leave out, events one can’t explain without handing over a full map of one’s life, unfolding it, making clear that all the lines and contours stand f...

The heart of a story gives it life.

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.

Love that Literature.

Infinite possibilities exist within the art of storytelling. To me, it is nothing less than the magic of creation.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always be smarter writers than you, and there will always be, you know, people wh...

I learn about how stories work for the same reason that soldiers learn how to strip a rifle.You should, too.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.

By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.

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...

Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.

The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast - Mississippi, Alabama and s...

The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong f...

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

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.

That's the problem with revealing true truths. They make people uncomfortable. The truth should be grand and exotic, but mostly it isn't. Mostly it's uncomfortable.