Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a…

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

— Taylor Swift

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

— Yuval Noah Harari

I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the…

— Danae Elon

I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.

— Dianne Reeves

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and]…

— Orson Welles

My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four…

— Paule Marshall

I love storytellers. When I was growing up, my inspirations were watching Eddie Murphy, Dennis Wolfberg, and Louie Anderson. These guys were great at…

— Jo Koy

I work with writers whom I believe to be true storytellers. And because I'm a writer, I pay very keen attention to their vision.…

— Danai Gurira

“He has told me, “I am only telling you what no one else will,” but of course, he is telling me what the world…

— Roxane Gay

The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction…

— Jerry Garcia

“In the history of the world, telling someone to ‘calm down’ has never done anything but piss them off more.”

— Sarah Beth Durst

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

— James Randi

“You'd better have a firm foundation when you go out into the world. There's no telling what you'll run into.”

— Ann B. Ross

When all the world is telling you 'no', tell yourself 'yes' ten times louder.

— Anonymous

The worst thing in the world is telling yourself you can't do something.

— Jason Mitchell