1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

Storytellers calmed fears of the unknown and unknowable while shamans and healers dipped into the same well to cool ailments of the human body and spirit, ameliorating opposing forces and wills, stilling the quavering of life's delicate balance.

What follows is ambiguous and sometimes tortuously told. Man's searchings and his strugglings are ambiguous and vowed to hidden ways. Those who live by that dark light will understand.

I would have written this next part into the story if anybody would have believed it. But who would have? I was there and I didn't believe it.

Normality was normal because it had lost its stories ... only when the mask of normality was torn off did reasons for stories exist once again.

Screenwriters pass on the story of the world as did the chroniclers of the ancient past. The struggles of our characters are the same as they were back then. The only thing that has changed is the medium.

It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls and ceilings. The weight of what has been said can lie heavily on what might yet be said and suffocate it. By the river the air carries the story on a journey: one sentence drifts away and makes way for the next.

This was the Paris of the strivers, of those who dwelt low, not high. This was not the Paris of balloonists. It was her Paris, and it was the same as it had been this morning. But she, perhaps, was not.

You should know we had so much joy as well! But when you build a story down, you end up with something macabre. All stories end the same way, don't they.

Without stories, we're all just lonely islands...stories let us see and hear and feel what someone else does...they build bridges to the other islands. That's why stories are so important. They create true empathy.