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-Levit

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 post-modern 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