1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

Stories are where I live - they are physical three-dimensional places to me. When I was a kid and locked in the coal hole for various crimes, I had a choice: count coal - a limited activity. Tell myself a story - an unlimited world of the imagination.

...find a way to build with language a bridge between a failure to believe and a witness to what is incomprehensible.

Milly's narrative skill was considerable... she brought a scene to life by a chance descriptive detail in the right place and by that graphic and right placing of words which most of the Irish excel at. She had no Irish blarney, she never exaggerated. I could listen to Milly for hours.

Listening to a story told by Clete Purcel was like building the pyramids with your bare hands. I twirled my finger, trying to make him finish.

I've been doing this for 50 years now and instead of retiring I'm busier than ever, though perhaps not as fast at getting things done. It's all terrifically interesting and very satisfying.

A story too many times told is a dish with-out salt. ---Rose Wilder Lane

And part of why books matter and writing matters and storytelling matters is because the best writers go first: the best writers say the unsaid and unspoken, the secret truths we all feel but can't quite speak aloud. - Shauna Niequist (Forward for Miracles and Other Reasonable Things)

Every story is a love story if you catch it at the right moment

Most people can't tell the difference between truthtelling and madness; try it sometime and you'll see what I mean.