1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

Narration, after all, isn’t just a literary function. It represents the human capacity to tell stories in such a manner that they yield meaning. Television replaced this concerted quest for meaning with a frantic pursuit of wonder.

If you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” [Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857]

Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always be smarter writers than you, and there will always be, you know, people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you.