1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.

While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.

I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature’s killer app, the thing most impervious to threat by everything that’s not the word.

ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.

Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.

There will always be reservations, things one must leave out, events one can’t explain without handing over a full map of one’s life, unfolding it, making clear that all the lines and contours stand for long days and nights when things were bad or good, or when things were too small to be described at all: when things just were. This is a life.

we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves