Storyteller Quotes

• To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they

  Ben Okri

  Art, Poison, Stories

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• Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.

  Patti Davis

  Teacher, Night, Light

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• When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Stories, Down And

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• The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.

  Dalai Lama

  Successful, People, Doe

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• Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

  Robert McKee

  Meaningful, Powerful, Creative

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• If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Writing, History, Stories

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• The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thinking

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• The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Thinking, Giving, Purpose

  Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.1775, Macmillan

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• Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Stories, Storytelling

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• The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Peace, Science, Technology

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.135, Northwestern University Press

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• The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.

  Harold Clarke Goddard

  Believe, Destiny, Battle

  "The Meaning of Shakespeare". Book by Harold Clarke Goddard, 1951.

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

  Studs Terkel

  People, Stories, Hungry

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• Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

  Ibn Battuta

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventurous

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• All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

  Harvey Cox

  Needs, Stories, Storytelling

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• All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Suicide, Stories

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

  Steven Spielberg

  Movie, Inspiring, Positivity

  "Science Fiction in Steven Spielberg's Suburbia". Interview with Chris Hodenfield, www.rollingstone.com. January 26, 1978.

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• Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

  Ben Okri

  Fear, Heart, Telling Stories

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• People have forgotten how to tell a story.

  Steven Spielberg

  Film Directing, People, Directors

  "One! the Book about Everything and Nothing!: Stories from One Male to All of You". Book by Chimie (p. 85), November 23, 2011.

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• If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

  Barry Lopez

  Giving, Stories, Alive

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Dec 25, 2012

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• Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

  John Barth

  Sports, Hero, Stories

  "How to Seek Heroism in Demands" by Grande Lum, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2009.

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• You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Storytelling, Plans, Humans

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Oct 11, 2012

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• People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

  Studs Terkel

  People, Generations, Stories

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• Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.

  Robert Moss

  Hunting, Forever, Stories

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• Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Writing, Stories

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2261, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Patterns, Causes

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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