1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.

You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better themselves. Give them a stranger's life, and then they're content.

داستانها هرگز به پایان نمی رسند. راوی ست که معمولا صدایش را در نقطه ی جذاب و هنرمندانه قطع می کند؛ کلا همه اش همین است.

Unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it at all.

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

Life is absurd. But there is one meaningful thing, one inarguable thing, and that is that there is suffering. Fine writing helps alleviate that suffering – and anything that puts meaning and beauty into the world in the form of story, helps people to live with more peace and purpose and balance, is deeply worthwhile.

Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we know of has a tradition of storytelling. No doubt stories have touched your life, too, from bedtime stories you may have heard as a child to news stories you see on TV or read in a newspaper. We might even say that a major goal of living is to created the story of our own lives, a story we hope to take pleasure and pride in telling.

There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven.