Quotes about Storytelling

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.

If we are to use the Bible effectively, then we must use it the way God wrote it — in narrative form. Our team rejects the notion that the Bible is simply an encyclopedia of disconnected Bible verses. God's Word is less like a cookbook and more like a novel.

Explanation sets the need for further inquiry aside; narrative invites us to rethink what we thought we knew.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

For a novelist, being 'too emotional' is often a good thing. The only thing you have to sell is your emotional experiences.

I always thought of episode 1 as the prologue and episode 2 as our chapter 1 for 'Loki.'

If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.