Quotes about Storytelling
To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.
- Maya Angelou
Try to be a rainbow in someones cloud There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Maya Angelou
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
- CS Lewis
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
- Madeleine L'Engle
I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.
- Nicole Kidman
Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.
- Max Lucado
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." [ Letter to Harrison Blake ; November 16, 1857]
- Henry David Thoreau
A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.
- Stephen Sondheim
It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.
- Andy Andrews
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.
- Elie Wiesel
The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.
- James Wolk
Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.
- Holly Hunter