Quotes about Storytelling

Myth is much more important and true than history.

there is a fourth function of myth, and this is the one that I think everyone must try today to relate to—and that is the pedagogical function, of how to live a human lifetime under any circumstances. Myths can teach you that.

Fiction is not the opposite of truth—indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.

Ona and Yagan people.

this grand and cacophonous chorus began when our primal ancestors told stories to themselves about the animals that they killed for food and about the supernatural world to which the animals seemed to go when they died.

In fact, though the books came slowly, he was a novelist to his bootlaces, an avid narrator who couldn't stop the story once it had started, who felt the terrors of existence so acutely that he had to tell them and tell them until he'd made them something else.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

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.