Storytelling Quotes
426 quotes by 358 authors
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
— Hannah Arendt
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
— Karen Armstrong
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You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
— Margaret Atwood
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted…
— Margaret Atwood
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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to…
— Alan Ball
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My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes…
— Eric Bana
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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
— Russell Banks
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
— Walter Benjamin
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It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
— Tom Brokaw
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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
— Terry Brooks
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I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to…
— Sophia Bush
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Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not…
— Meg Cabot
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Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.
— Nicolas Cage
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But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as…
— Jane Campion
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I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.
— John le Carre
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The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.
— Lee Child
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People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
— Michael Shermer
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Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.
— Peter Guber
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I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
— Armistead Maupin
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Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
— Donna Tartt
Who Wrote These Storytelling Quotes
358 authors contributed a total of 426 Storytelling Quotes, led by these top contributors: