Telling Stories Quotes

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Writing, History, Stories

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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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• 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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• 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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• All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

  Isak Dinesen

  Writing, Sorrow, Ifs

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• We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Order, Stories

  1979 The White Album,'The White Album, 1'.

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• Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

  Barry Lopez

  Inspire, Needs, Stories

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Aug 10, 2010

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

  Ben Okri

  Fear, Heart, Conquer

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

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Writing, Mind

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• There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Wise, Niece

  O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 4 (1913)

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• We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, Animal, Trying

  "In Awe of Words". The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University, 1930.

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• One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Second Chance, Mind, Stories

  "Of Opinions". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

  Lili Taylor

  Art, Survival, Needs

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• By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

  Tim O'Brien

  Stories, Facts, Helping

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God

  Rumi

  Sleep, Stories, Lovers

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• I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

  Joss Whedon

  Ambition, Want, Pay

  "Joss Whedon Talks MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D., Its Weekly Format, Planning Agent Coulson’s Return, How the Series Ties into the Films and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 6, 2013.

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• I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

  Sheila Nevins

  People, Stories, Want

  "HBO Docs President Sheila Nevins Talks West Memphis Three, New Oscar Rules, Sundance, Abramovic". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. February 22, 2012.

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• I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Mean, People, Stories

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• The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

  Olivier Dahan

  Real, People, Mixing

  "Olivier Dahan: 'I don't read the Grace of Monaco critics'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.

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• I would definitely not rule out doing television in the future because I think it's a great medium for telling stories. And it can also be practically very nice for a family man to have 9 months out of the year where you're in the city, where you're close to your home.

  Chris Pratt

  Nice, Home, Men

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

  Aaron Huey

  Real, Thinking, Understanding

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• Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.

  Seth Shostak

  Reality, Stories, May

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