1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

Tales are as much the necessary fabric of our lives as our bodies are.

Researching and writing my novel has taken me to some really dark places. It is when you are in these dark places that you can see: there is always hope, there is always love.

The only future I'm good at predicting are those of the characters I write.

I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

Do you want the truth or fiction?

A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an act of imaginary consummation, that the story is born. This act wholly involves us, as any marriage would, and just as no marriage is exactly the same as another, so each of us interprets a story differently, feels for it differently. A story calls upon us...as individuals-and we like that. Stories benefit the human mind.

Stories are like islands, go out exploring and you're bound to get lost fantastically.

Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems.