Quotes about Storytelling

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.

Brands that give customers a voice in a larger narrative add value to their products by giving their customers a deeper sense of meaning.

Stories and images can be powerful means for conveying ideas. Every time we read a book or watch a movie, we enter into an imaginative

Live your life in a way that is worth telling stories about.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Over the years I've grown more and more convinced that "storytelling" is a better way of understanding what the Bible is doing with the past than "history writing.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

As a communicator, I spend a good portion of my days sharing stories. People don't care a lot about cold facts. They don't want to look at pie charts. They want excitement. They like drama. They care about pictures. They want to laugh. They want to see and feel what happened. Statistics don't inspire people to do great things. Stories do!

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children

This is why, if you want to get to know someone, you need to know their story. Their life is a story. It, too, has a past and a future. It, too, unfolds in a series of scenes over the course of time.