Audience Quote by John Tiffany

Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.

— Susan Burton

I don't know about transformation. But scientifically you can say: Well, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody. Personally I've been cheered by books at…

— George Saunders

Then I tell my own story. The two things that people really need to transform is language to understand their experience and to know…

— Brené Brown

“At their most basic level, great fictional stories are about transformation - usually a change from one perspective to another. The change may be…

— Rob Parnell

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

— Jean Houston

Ultimately why I do what I do is to allow the story to affect change in people in some way.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

It's like, if you have a story that's already great, then the thing that we can shift is how we're telling that story, how…

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

Transformation is an instant-moment thing, available to us in any and every second. Life starts anew when you say it does.

— Neale Donald Walsch

I can affect change by transforming the only thing that I ever had control over in the first place and that is myself.

— Deepak Chopra

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

— Yann Martel

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

— Elie Wiesel

Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal…

— John Green