1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

Some names have been changed.Some facts may have succumbed to recollection.

Stories are not a simple recounting of events. They are not a thorough reporting of moments over a give period of time. Stories are the crafted representation of events that are related in such a way to demonstrate change over time in the life of the storyteller. Applying the but-and-therefore principle to your stories, bot formal and anecdotal, will make you the kind of person people want to listen to. 203

Stories are not a simple recounting of events. They are not a thorough reporting of moments over a give period of time. Stories are the crafted representation of events that are related in such a way to demonstrate change over time in the life of the storyteller. Applying the but-and-therefore principle to your stories, both formal and anecdotal, will make you the kind of person people want to listen to. 203

This day and age, your social media channels introduce you to the world by telling your story via images and video.

If you release the idea of the essential self, throw it naked into the surf and let the sea carry it away, then everything changes. Without it, masks take on a new expanse of possibility. They can conceal, yes, but as the magician says, they can also clarify what is true - in precisely the same way a story can tell you something better than stark facts ever could.

Stories give people the feeling that there is meaning, that there is ultimately an order lurking behind the incredible confusion of appearances and phenomena that surrounds them. This order is what people require more than anything else.

Our lives have ebbs and flows. Ends and beginnings are illusions. Starting over is nothing more than recognizing The Pause before picking up your thread and continuing to weave your own story.

Jacob will think: What is at stake in sharing this story? And Wilhelm will think: What is at stake in leaving this story untold?

-A Kari TaleKari entered under the archway, hitting her chest to get the cold out and stamping snow off her boots.Prince Thomm ‘The Bored,’ drolly looked up from his metallic spinny globe. “How ever is the weather out there–with the peasants?” he said dryly.Kari looked up and tee-heed a smile. “You don’t say,” retorted the Prince.“Best dress sharp. ’Tis knowing out there.