1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

I don't have a problem w/ people not knowing about oppression & social issues. I DO have a problem w/ people standing their ground in ignorance. Viciously, even violently, protecting that ignorance from the light of truth. I do have a problem with that.

Every painting tells a story.

Every work of art tells a story.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Perspective is the key to everything.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]

You can fix anything but a blank page.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.