1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

மானுட மனத்தின் அதி நுண்மையான ஒரு இடத்தை 'தற்செயலாக’ ஆனால் தீவிரமாக தீண்டிச்செல்வதே மிகச் சிறந்த கதை

Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.

Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.

I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going with our powers of language, consciousness of self, and autobiographical memory.

You are a born storyteller," said the old lady. "You had the sense to see you were caught in a story, and the sense to see that you could change it to another one.