1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

People want to do business with you because of 'who you are' and 'what you stand for'... not because of 'what you do'."Create your story... publish it online and make sure people will find you when they Google you.

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation is informed by time. And so I tell my story to you, as the Mariner told his: he, standing outside the wedding party, snatching at a passing wrist, paralyzing his victim with his gaze; I, standing with my family at the edge of this immortal forest. I tell this story because telling this story is what I must do.

Ich bin eben kein Erzähler wie du.

Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood, this whole notion that you can't tell stories about certain characters because someone else owns them is a very modern one - and to my mind, a very strange one.

People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride.

I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring at you.

Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it...

This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.