Changed Quote by Ashwin Sanghi

“In oral societies it is recognized that the telling of a story to a different audience or in a different context or for a…

— Bart D. Ehrman

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

— Michael Ende

Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky…

— Kate Forsyth

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

— John Edgar Wideman

We live in a society that is in transition from oral to written. There are oral stories that are still there, not exactly in…

— Chinua Achebe

Storytelling has changed. Shows like 'Adventure Time' have taken storytelling in a different direction.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I…

— Tobias Wolff

I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my…

— Khaled Hosseini

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth…

— Erin Morgenstern

Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories…

— David Massengill

The great stories are always the old ones - they never change.

— Adrian Lester