1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

The story of a girl who hunted dragons to soothe the hurt in her heart. The story of the dragon who changed her.

We make the revolutionary history, telling the past as we have learned it mouth-to-mouth, telling the present as we see, know, and feel it in our heats and with our words.

...a true narrative like time and tide must run its course and would respect no man.

every story, even your own, is either happy or sad depending on where you stop telling it

Because at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter whether the story’s true or not. What matters is the care that’s been put into the story. The love. If something is pretend, that usually means someone has taken the time to build a story for you to live in. And building stories takes a lot of work. And, yes, there will come a time when you’ll see the story isn’t true. But the intentions behind it? Completely true. The love behind it? Also true.

Miss Foxe's other passion was fairy tales. She loved the transformations in them. Everybody was in disguise, or on their way to becoming something else. And all was overcome by order in the end. Love could not prevail if the order of the tale didn't wish it, and neither could hatred, nor grief, nor cunning. If you were the first of three siblings, then you were going to make a big mistake, and that was that. If you were the third sibling, you couldn't fail.

I almost forgot to mention another fox I know of—a very wicked fox indeed. But you are tired of hearing about foxes now, so I won't go on.

A person learns about the world by interpreting and cogitating upon personal experiences and by examining other people’s choices and philosophical perspective. We also learn by communicating with other people including sharing our stories with a receptive audience

A curtain was drawn back in every man's inner theater and their storytelling minds got to work.