Storytelling Quotes

“Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in allplaces, in all times. ”

“Storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are.”

“I love a good 2,000 year old storytelling fresco!”

“Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an ancient discipline and vocation to which everyone is called.”

“Good storytellers are always ready for the next question.”

“You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.”

“If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?”

“People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not.""Shouldn't the storyteller believe it.""The storyteller should tell it.”

“Storytelling still matters in the digital age, because commencing in adolescences and continuing through adulthood, people receive training in using stories to describe the human contestants, organize the facts, communicate the moral message behind the messy human conflict, evaluate competing ethical issues, and render a final value judgment.”

“The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast - Mississippi, Alabama and so on.”