Quotes about Storytelling

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

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.

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.

Try to be a rainbow in someones cloud There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.