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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• It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

  Val McDermid

  Magic, World, Another World

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

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Art, World

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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 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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• Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

  Ira Glass

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Stories

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• The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.

  Julianna Baggott

  Shows

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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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  The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

  William H. Gass

  Book, Writing, Kids

  William H. Gass (2010). “A Temple of Texts”, p.37, Knopf Group E-Books

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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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• There is no greater power on this earth than story.

  Libba Bray

  Stories, Earth, Greater Power

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• And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

  Alan Rickman

  Destiny, Government, People

  "Interview: Alan Rickman on “Nobel Son”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. December 4.

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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 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

  Writing, Stories, Who We Are

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Jan 22, 2014

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• A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

  Ben Okri

  Heart, People, Mad

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• You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Plans, Storyteller, Humans

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Oct 11, 2012

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• Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Reality

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• There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Library, Stories

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.31, Ultramarine Publishing

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  It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Life, Healing, Identity

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Death, Reading, Health

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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