1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.

As soon as there's an unquestionable truth there's no longer a myth.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.