“Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an… — Nancy Mellon Copy Share Image
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail,… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink. — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“Language allows us to represent autobiographical events in the past, present and future; we can imagine events that have not yet happened,… — Jacqui Stedmon Copy Share Image
“The stories shatter. Or you wear them out or leave them behind. Over time the story of the memory loses its power.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Storytelling is powerful; film particularly. We can know a lot of things intellectually, but humans really live on storytelling. Primarily with ourselves;… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
“Stories are how we make sense of our lives. To tell a story is to own it: to own the narrative thread… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
There's a sense in which the media narrative diminishes me. I resist the temptation to fit into a preconceived narrative. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
“What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes? You focus on… — Storm Princeholm Copy Share Image
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
The fashion industry is all about storytelling and craftsmanship. Sustainability adds value because it makes that backstory even more impactful. — Miroslava Duma Copy Share Image
Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
