Quotes about Storytelling
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
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
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
— William Faulkner
The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
— Ann Voskamp
Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
— Mark Twain
No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help.
— Donald Miller
If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.
— Donald Miller