Storytelling Quote by R.L. Adams

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

— Hannah Arendt

“Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.”

— John S. Savage

“Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses—one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up…

— Jincy Willett

“What we put in and leave out of our stories tells us something about who we are.”

— Eddie S. Glaude Jr

“But stories are just tools. They should not become our goals or our yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.”

— Katharine Haake

“Narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetical responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become not just agents of our own lives, but narrators…

— Richard Kearney

“Stories are vehicles for conveying who we are, what is important, and what ought to be done..”

— David Vermette

“The ending of a story tells us what it means.”

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.”

— Bailey Elizabeth

“Stories are a basic constituent of human life; they are, in fact, one key element within the total construction of a worldview. I”

— N.T. Wright