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Storytelling Quotes

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We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.
John P. Kotter

Authors on Storytelling Quotes: Margaret Atwood Malcolm Gladwell Gary Vaynerchuk Salman Rushdie E. L. James Walton Goggins Harriet Lerner Mother Teresa Bruce Springsteen Rosario Dawson Joseph Gordon-Levitt David Eick Tom Brevoort George Lucas Frank McCourt Ann Douglas Melissa Rosenberg Chris Vance Robert Harris Jill Soloway Daniel Myrick Terry Brooks Vincent Kartheiser Geoffrey S. Fletcher Kurt Vonnegut Andrew Stanton Ian Mckellen John Musker Cecil B. DeMille Richie Hawtin Kevin Spacey Paulo Coelho C. S. Lewis
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The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.
Cecil B. DeMille

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In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
Walt Disney

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If I look at the mass I will never act.
Mother Teresa

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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

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You can't sell anything if you can't tell anything.
Beth Comstock

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One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
Spalding Gray

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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
Raymond Chandler

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Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
Donald Davis

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Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
Ted Lange

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Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.
John Carpenter

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Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
Aaron Sorkin

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Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.
Gary Vaynerchuk

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We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.
Malcolm Gladwell

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Tell me a story of deep delight.
Robert Penn Warren

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The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.
Osamu Dazai

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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
Quentin Tarantino

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Chord progression is progression of emotions; storytelling - taking one person from one mood to the next. We are doing the same thing within a DJ set.
Richie Hawtin

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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
Patrick Ness

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It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
Tom Brokaw

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Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin

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When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
Aristotle

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Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
Holly Near

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To be a person is to have a story to tell.
Isak Dinesen

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Science is the storytelling of our time.
William Irwin Thompson

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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
Neil Gaiman

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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

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The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.
Paulo Coelho

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We are the storytelling animal.
Salman Rushdie

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So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point
Brian De Palma

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It's my passion, that's what I wanna do, it's the end goal, that's what I crave every second of the day is to be working on a production but also to be the person leading the production and guiding the pacing of the storytelling.
Logan Lerman

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A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.
Margaret Wise Brown

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Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.
Henry Miller

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Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.
Elise M. Boulding

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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

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The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.
Reynolds Price

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Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.
Robert Redford

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The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.
Li-Young Lee

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I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.
Paul Thomas Anderson

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A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.
V. S. Pritchett

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Content marketing is weaponized storytelling.
Chris Brogan

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We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.
Charles de Lint

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I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.
Damon Lindelof

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It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.
Val McDermid

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Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.
Danny Harris

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The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.
Kevin Costner

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Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.
Kelley Armstrong

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What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music.
Lizz Wright

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I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.
Maya Angelou