Hope Quote by Anonymous

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

— Tom Hanks

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least…

— Flannery O'Connor

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that…

— M. John Harrison

Stories make ideas and concepts come alive and by shifting the action to another world and another time, they help us step back and…

— Prakah Iyer

As long as we have our stories there is hope.

— Henri Nouwen

I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out.…

— Danielle Trussoni

The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by…

— Doris Lessing

But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without…

— Charles de Lint

Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too…

— Arthur Kleinman

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take them in…

— Chris Claremont

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

— Holly Smale