1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.

These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.

You have to imagine things before you can do them. Stories help us see.

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.

If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous.

Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: "Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.

The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.

Still, truth is how I remember it now. In a way, I am changing the past from my desk here in the future as I write. It always happens like this. This is how we all tell our story.

The Bible provocatively evokes desire.