Quotes About Storytelling

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a story is worth a thousand assurances.

Once you give your attention to the title Don't Think of an Elephant, no matter how hard you try you cannot not think of an elephant. It is the same way with stories.

If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.

It's not always about writing more words or drinking more coffee. Sometimes getting to the end of a novel simply takes remembering that the world is more complicated than we know, and then sticking some of those complications into the story.

Persistent, consistent, and frequent stories, delivered to an aligned audience, will earn attention, trust, and action.

All marketers are storytellers. Only the losers are liars.

Marketing is the name we use to describe the promise a company makes, the story it tells, the authentic way it delivers on that promise.

Marketing is the generous act of helping others become who they seek to become. It involves creating honest stories—stories that resonate and spread.

Marketing used to be about advertising, and advertising is expensive. Today, marketing is about engaging with the tribe and delivering products and services with stories that spread.

We'd like to believe that efficient, useful, cost-effective products and services are the way to succeed. That hard work is its own reward. Most marketers carry around a worldview that describes themselves as innovators, not storytellers.

Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists.

The way we make things better is by caring enough about those we serve to imagine the story that they need to hear.

The way we make things better is by caring enough about those we serve to imagine the story that they need to hear. We need to be generous enough to share that story, so they can take action that they'll be proud of.

Good marketers tell a story. Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to others. Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation rich world.

When you seek to share your best work—your best story, your shot at change—it helps if it's likely to spread. It helps if it's permanent. But even if it's extraordinary, it's not going to make a difference if you drop it in the ocean. That doesn't mean you give up hope. It means you walk away from the ocean and look for a large swimming pool.

O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me! If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story. . . O, I die, Horatio;

I could tell you an extensively strange story, I warned. Oh, good! Gram said. Delicious!

Gramps said, 'How about a story? Spin us a yarn.

I want to live. I take them up like the male and female paper dolls and bang them together at the hips like chips of flint as if to strike sparks from them, I say Do what you are going to do, and I will tell about it.

As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.

Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock

I don't recall the moment when I officially became a storyteller—a talented liar—but here I must quote Simon Ortiz, the Acoma Pueblo writer, who said, "Listen. If it's fiction, then it better be true.