Quotes about Storytelling

God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.

Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Neal Stephenson, Richard K. Morgan, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Terry Pratchett, Terry Brooks

The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

I'm always really impressed when a movie can function like a novel does - that's so hard to do.

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.

If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.

Do this for someone. Ask someone to tell you his—or her—story. Resist the urge to interrupt or correct. Turn off the television. Log off from the internet. Close your laptop; silence your cell phone. Give the rarest of gifts: your full attention.