Quotes of Storytelling - somelinesforyou

“ The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. ”

- Walter Benjamin

“ To hell with facts! We need stories. ”

- Ken Kesey

“ Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. ”

- Robert McKee

“ Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ it is the tale, not he who tells it. ”

- Stephen King

“ If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ”

- Toni Morrisson

“ That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again. ”

- Walt Disney

“ At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if–what then' approach. ”

- Chris Van Allsburg

“ Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Don’t write it right, just write it - and then make it right later. ”

- Tara Moss

“ The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. ”

- Terry Pratchett

“ Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality Disorder. ”

- Peggy Ullman Bell

“ Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. ”

- Natalie Goldberg

“ If you have to write you'll write. You don't choose the writer's life, the writer's life chooses you. ”

- Tom Grimes

“ The original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ”

- Chateaubriand

“ I write to reach eternity. ”

- James Jones

“ Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Oh, but it is true. Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ In the book of life we are chapters in one another's stories. ”

- Unknown

“ In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal. ”

- Unknown

“ I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. ”

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“ The best teachers are the best storytellers. ”

- Frank Smith

“ Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday. ”

- O. J. Simpson

“ The life of every man is a diary, in which he means to write one story, and writes another. ”

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

“ The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ”

- James M. Barrie

“ Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. ”

- Bruce Springsteen

“ I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. ”

- Gwen Stefani

“ The shortest distance between a human being and Truth is a story. ”

- Anthony de Mello

“ Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. ”

- Ray Bradbury
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