Quotes about Story telling

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All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is al — Vera Nazarian, Dreams of the Compass Rose
I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn — Vera Nazarian, Dreams of the Compass Rose
You are never too old to become younger! — Mae West
Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us en — Leah C. Fowler
… real life hardly ever unfolds the way we’d like it to, not like in a story. — Lily Graham, The Cornish Escape
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta. — April Genevieve Tucholke, Wink Poppy Midnight
The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind. — Vera Nazarian, Dreams of the Compass Rose
Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
If the past is no longer presentis it fiction? — Natasha Tsakos
Because the new the stories we tell, the art we make, the rockets we build, will influence the future that shapes our pr — Natasha Tsakos
School children, who have enjoyed reading a romance or a detective thriller or a novel about terror and conquest, make t — Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word
It’s no longer history in the making. It’s our story we are making. — Natasha Tsakos
Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There is a folk-tale about a shoemaker and his wife who were so poor that they had to send their many children out into — Gyula Illyés, Once Upon a Time: Forty Hungarian Folk-Tales
Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. — Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again. — Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith
The principal advantage of narrative writing is that it assists us place our life experiences in a storytelling template — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The first story to read is the Biblical stories. — Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Our personal story has many chapters that reconnoiter universal themes. We each struggle to understand ourselves and asp — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls