66 Quotes About Story-telling

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

If the past is no longer presentis it fiction?

The first story to read is the Biblical stories.

Because the new the stories we tell, the art we make, the rockets we build, will influence the future that shapes our present.

It’s no longer history in the making. It’s our story we are making.

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher..

The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught.

A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source.

The story I'm writing finds its own voice while I'm writing it.