Quotes about Storytelling
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
- Walt Whitman
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.
- James MacDonald
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.
- James MacDonald
Explanation sets the need for further inquiry aside; narrative invites us to rethink what we thought we knew.
- James Carse
Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.
- Kesha
I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.
- Gia Coppola
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.
- Rob Bell
For a novelist, being 'too emotional' is often a good thing. The only thing you have to sell is your emotional experiences.
- Randy Ingermanson
I always thought of episode 1 as the prologue and episode 2 as our chapter 1 for 'Loki.'
- Kate Herron
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.
- Boots Riley
An old Apache storyteller reminds us
- Joseph Campbell
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.
- Max Lucado