Storytelling Quotes

• Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

  Robert McKee

  Leadership, Morning, Powerful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Stories

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.12, Random House

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• Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.

  Ed Sabol

  Truth, Believe, Learning

  "Remembering NFL Films' Founder Ed Sabol". "60 Minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. February 11, 2015.

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• There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Writing

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• Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “Men in Dark Times”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Writing, History, Stories

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• The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Art, World

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• Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

  Ira Glass

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Stories

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• The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Peace, Science, Technology

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.135, Northwestern University Press

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• We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

  Ang Lee

  Numbers, Needs, Goes On

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

  Robert McKee

  Meaningful, Powerful, Creative

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• Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

  Ben Okri

  Fear, Heart, Telling Stories

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• We owe it to each other to tell stories.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stories

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.17, Hachette UK

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  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

  Gilda Radner

  Life, Change, Goodbye

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Moving On, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 14, 2013

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• People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

  Studs Terkel

  People, Generations, Stories

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• Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Courage, Stories, Alive

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• Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

  Robert Redford

  Important, Humans, Continuity

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• To be a person is to have a story to tell.

  Isak Dinesen

  Stories, Public Speaking, Persons

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• The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

  Vera Nazarian

  Memories, Two, Acting

  Vera Nazarian (2004). “Dreams of the Compass Rose”, p.175, Wildside Press LLC

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• People have forgotten how to tell a story.

  Steven Spielberg

  Film Directing, People, Directors

  "One! the Book about Everything and Nothing!: Stories from One Male to All of You". Book by Chimie (p. 85), November 23, 2011.

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• Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!

  Ben Mikaelsen

  Writing, Reality, Never Quit

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• The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Thinking, Giving, Purpose

  Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.1775, Macmillan

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

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Writing, Mind

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• My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

  Tahir Shah

  Father, Heritage, Stories

  Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.141, Random House

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