1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

Philosophic thoughts allow people to use human reason and imagination to consider eternal matters and explore the ramifications of their own transience. American author Joan Didion postulated that we tell ourselves stories in order to live. Conceivably a personal crisis propels a person to delve into creating a guiding philosophy for living with reduced mental and emotional turmoil. Alternatively, perhaps we tell stories to examine, explain, and justify our failures.

Your audience is waiting for your stories. They have memory slots tailor-made to light up and remember you.

Once there was, and one day there will be.

There's always, there'll always be, more story. That's what story is...It's the never-ending leaf-fall.

The story that had once singed and flared in her had long since receded, as her habit of silence turned, over the decades, into law. Did she mean to take it to the grave with her, then? Plainly, that was what she was going to do. She was going to take it to the grave. And it would end there. Dust.

Choose your story. Choose your future.

I write in different genres for different audiences because that's the vision I have for that story's journey, not because I want to write in a specific genre. - Kailin Gow

Sometimes a story is all you have,” she [Coralee] says. “Sometimes that can be enough.

I don't write to make books, I write to tell stories.