1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

We tell ourselves our own stories, selectively, in order to keep our sense of self intact.

Storytelling in deep canvassing is like Lisa's foot pushing against the subway door, preventing it from closing, slowing down the pace of the interaction o allow for space between people, a moment of humanity. She felt she made progress even when a Trump supporter didn't radically change his or her mind but might have thought, 'Wow, you are a decent person. And you're a Democrat. I was scared to talk to you before. I thought you were going to yell at me.

What you should actually be trying to figure out is how to tell your story. The one that is every bit as unique to you as your fingerprints.This is the truly amazing feat because you are literally the only person capable of doing that. Only you know all the parts to your story and only you can pass it on for others to hear if you choose to.

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

No matter how shitty things are, you can always get a song out of it.

I had nothing to say, not because I hadn't lived, but because I wasn't prepared to say anything true about who I was.

There are indeed many places where I could start. I might start with Rachel's tears, or Priscilla's. There is much shedding of tears in this story. In a complex explanation any order may seem arbitrary. Where after all does anything begin? That three of the four starting points I have mentioned were causally independent of each other suggests speculations, doubtless of the most irrational kind, upon the mystery of human fate.