1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

If you read stories, you find the strength, faith and hope to survive everyday life.

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.

The bigger the dream, the better the story.

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.

I’m a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I’ve invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkind to other people to repeat myself.

Asking storytellers to be genuine is like, asking a chain smoker to quit smoking . Habit of lying isn't easy to fix. Pretend as believing is like selling cigarettes. What else we could do, if we want them to be in our lives...

It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.

The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.

The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. It’s where we meet the strong or subtle cultural censors who attempt to define what community, race, class, or gender can or cannot speak, to tell us which stories are told and valued and which are not. In short, it’s where we’re reminded of the power of personal stories and the power of the storyteller.