Quotes About Storytelling

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.

Man is essentially a story-telling animal, but a teller of stories that aspire to truth.

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.

Geschichten sind unser Gedächtnis, Bibliotheken die Lagerstätten für dieses Gedächtnis und Lesen das Handwerk, mit dem wir dieses Gedächtnis neu erschaffen können, indem wir es rezitieren und glossieren, es wieder in unsere eigene Erfahrung rückübersetzen und so auf dem aufbauen, was frühere Generationen für bewahrenswert hielten.

Every story is a palimpsest, composed of layers of tellings and retellings, and every time we think we are parroting a well-known anecdote the words shed their feathers and sprout new ones for the occasion.

You're never really done for, as long as you've got a good story and someone to tell it to.

Alessandro Baricco

Quasi ogni giorno, ormai da anni, prende la penna in mano e le scrive. Non ha nomi e non ha indirizzi da mettere sulle buste: ma ha una vita da raccontare. E a chi, se non a lei? Lui pensa che quando si incontreranno sarà bello posarle sul grembo una scatola di mogano piena di lettere e dirle – Ti aspettavo.

Lo que saca a la historia de sí misma, trayéndola así al mundo, es el acto de contarla. Que, sin embargo

Col tempo iniziò a concedersi un piacere che prima si era sempre negato: a coloro che andavano a trovarlo, raccontava dei suoi viaggi. Ascoltandolo, la gente di Lavilledieu imparava il mondo e i bambini scoprivano cos'era la meraviglia. Lui raccontava piano, guardando nell'aria cose che gli altri non vedevano.

Lui diceva: Non sei fregato veramente finché hai da parte una buona storia, e qualcuno a cui raccontarla. Lui l'aveva una... buona storia. Lui era la sua buona storia.

Still today, in the lands of Carewall, they all relate that trip. Each in his own way. All without ever having seen it. But it doesn't matter. They will never stop talking about it. So that no one can ever forget how beautiful it would be if, for every sea that awaits us, there were a river for us. And someone capable of taking us by the hand and of finding that river -imagine it, invent it- and of depositing us on its current, with the lightness of a single word, goodbye.

A TV show is its characters. When you describe a TV show, you're describing the characters and the situation they're in.

I got a little tape recorder and laid it on my chest and kept describing the scene as I saw it. Just the opening scenes took about 45 minutes. I don't know how it's going to end, but I like it that way. If I knew how it ended, I'd lose interest in the story.

Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

each of the best minds ends by making fairy tales

Every story began with the same claim: "If you hear the first part, you'll want to hear the second. If you hear the story today, you'll come back tomorrow for another. If you hear the story tonight, you'll think about it as you sleep.

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.

Die Jungen verzogen sich beeindruckt, und Angelika verband Lottes Wunde mit Ahornblättern, weil Lotte es so aus Indianergeschichten kannte. Von da an war sie Angelikas Leibwächterin.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.