Basic human needs Quote by Khalil Gibran

Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing…

— Parker J. Palmer

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

— Dan Harmon

Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

— Tim O'Brien

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

— Studs Terkel

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

— James Genn

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

— Philip Pullman

“Storytelling is ultimately the only way that we know besides song, dance, painting, and music to share with our tribesmen what it means to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Narrative storytelling is wired into our humanity.

— Kevin Reilly

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio…

— Paul Auster

The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes…

— David Loy

“We will drink what we thirst for and eat what we hunger for if we allow ourselves to be used for what we were…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.

— Frank Delaney