Storytellers Quotes

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.

~ Vera Nazarian

Stories are masks of God.That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning, texture, layers and layers of truth.Stories can also trivialize. Offered indelicately, taken too literally, stories become reductionist tools, rendering things neat and therefore false. Even as we must revere and cherish the masks we variously create, Campbell reminds us, we must not mistake the masks of God for God.So it seemes to me that one of the most vital things we can teach our children is how to be storytellers. How to tell stories that are rigorously, insistently, beautifully true. And how to believe them.

~ Melanie Tem

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

~ Lisa See

Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.

~ A.d. Posey

Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain.

~ Peter Brooks

Storytellers are individuals who enjoy creating a holiday for the mind.

~ Linda Daly

Always choose love over fear.

~ A.d. Posey

We are the thoughts we choose to keep.

~ A.d. Posey

Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers.

~ Kevin Keenoo

The gift of knowledge is empowering, but the gift of wisdom is life-changing.

~ A.d. Posey

When the true history fades, ask education and the unbiased story tellers

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To strive in life, we must either read or write a story.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland for their expression, no less than this dilapidated earth? Nay, are there not moods which shall find no expression unless there be men who dare to mix heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland together, or even to set the heads of beasts to the bodies of men, or to thrust the souls of men into the heart of rocks? Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. (A Teller of Tales)

~ W.b. Yeats

Simply put, I love books, physical books. I own so many--many of which I have not read (yet). I just need to have them . On shelves. In piles. In random conference tote bags. Paper magazines and newspapers too. Some call it clutter. I call it cozy. It's comforting to know I am surrounded by pages of stories. And, thus, by storytellers.

~ Donna Talarico

Always have class but always kick ass.

~ A.d. Posey

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

Comfort yields complacency. Break free.

~ A.d. Posey

Tonight is the night of telling our stories. You tell three and I four.

~ Avijeet Das

When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing.

~ A.d. Posey

Intuition is truth.

~ A.d. Posey

Stories change the world.

~ A.d. Posey

Find beauty in the madness.

~ A.d. Posey

When your heart is open, your eyes see the beauty that is all around you.

~ A.d. Posey

We are artists. When we can’t find the beauty, we create it.

~ A.d. Posey

Breathe in the beauty all around you.

~ A.d. Posey

Time unfolds beauty, wonder, and mystery to reveal the auspicious tapestry of life.

~ A.d. Posey

With grace and beauty, feel.

~ A.d. Posey

That which is cool is driven by the soul.

~ A.d. Posey

Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.

~ A.d. Posey

Crying cleanses the soul.

~ A.d. Posey

Close your eyes. Hear the silent snow. Listen to your soul speak.

~ A.d. Posey

Give all of life’s oxygen to the fire that is your soul.

~ A.d. Posey

Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.

~ A.d. Posey

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer.

~ A.d. Posey

Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul.

~ A.d. Posey

Epiphanies awaken the soul.

~ A.d. Posey

If you don’t think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.

~ A.d. Posey

Write what speaks to your soul.

~ A.d. Posey

The personal screenplay- where you dive into the terrifying depths of your soul, unearth the most intimate details about yourself, and put it on paper for the world to see. Proceed with caution, for madness lies ahead.

~ A.d. Posey

A writer’s uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader.

~ A.d. Posey