1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

I don’t want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See me! Look at me! Look at who I am! Look at who I want you to think I am!

That's the problem with revealing true truths. They make people uncomfortable. The truth should be grand and exotic, but mostly it isn't. Mostly it's uncomfortable.

No matter how good a story is, there is more at stake in the telling.

Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

Storytelling is an essential part of our cultural and human identity...when we become afraid of stories outside the mainstream, I believe we have lost a valuable part of our cultural inheritance and growth.

हमारे पहले कदम से लेकर आखिरी कदम तक तय की गयी दूरी की लंबाई जिन्दगी के बराबर होती है । इसीलिए शायद जिन्दगी हमें भटकाती है ताकि हम अपने हिस्से भर की जिन्दगी चल पायें। ये कहानियाँ भटककर संभलने और संभलकर दुबारा भटकने के दौरान तय की गयी दूरियाँ भर हैं

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.