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Story-Telling Quotes

Charles Dickens quote: "storytelling"
storytelling Charles Dickens
Robert Penn Warren quote: "Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of..."
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure. Robert Penn Warren
Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be -- knowledge based on experience. These stories become the conscience of the... Terry Tempest Williams
Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses—one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment. Joyce Carol Oates
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever. Chinua Achebe
Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Hope Davis quote: "Storytelling is what lights my fire."
Storytelling is what lights my fire. Hope Davis
Donald Davis quote: "Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do..."
Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living. Donald Davis
Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut. Todd Solondz
Robert McAfee Brown quote: "Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the..."
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. Robert McAfee Brown
Vincent Kartheiser quote: "Storytelling is the important thing."
Storytelling is the important thing. Vincent Kartheiser
Donna Tartt quote: "Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand."
Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand. Donna Tartt
Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for. Russell Banks
Hannah Arendt quote: "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of..."
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. Hannah Arendt
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm. Jack White

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