Storytelling Quotes

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

~ Pawan Mishra

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

~ Pawan Mishra

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

~ Pawan Mishra

The synopsis looked good,the cover looked nice,you opened the book,and began a new life.You found a new home,you met some new friends,you kept on reading,hoping it would never end.You danced through the pages,you sang out the words,you felt all their joy,and all their pain and hurt.The pages cut your fingers,the words cut your heart,like the author had a knife,and was tearing your soul apart.You laughed with the characters,and with them you cried,you fell in love with them, too,and with them you died,and when the book reached its end,and your broken heart couldn't heal,you suddenly realized that It's not real

~ Unknown

For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

~ A.d. Posey

The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become.

~ A.d. Posey

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it.

~ A.d. Posey

Reading sparks writing.

~ A.d. Posey

How you feel after reading something indicates not what you’ve read but where you are at.

~ A.d. Posey

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind.

~ A.d. Posey

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

~ Rudyard Kipling

The drinking dens are spilling outThere's staggering in the squareThere's lads and lasses falling aboutAnd a crackling in the airDown around the dungeon doorsThe shelters and the queuesEverybody's looking forSomebody's arms to fall intoAnd it's what it isIt's what it is nowThere's frost on the graves and the monumentsBut the taverns are warm in townPeople curse the governmentAnd shovel hot food downThe lights are out in the city hallThe castle and the keepThe moon shines down upon it allThe legless and asleepAnd it's cold on the tollgateWith the wagons creeping throughCold on the tollgateGod knows what I could do with youAnd it's what it isIt's what it is nowThe garrison sleeps in the citadelWith the ghosts and the ancient stonesHigh up on the parapetA Scottish piper stands aloneAnd high on the windThe highland drums begin to rollAnd something from the past just comesAnd stares into my soulAnd it's cold on the tollgateWith the Caledonian BluesCold on the tollgateGod knows what I could do with youAnd it's what it isIt's what it is nowWhat it isIt's what it is nowThere's a chink of light, there's a burning wickThere's a lantern in the towerWee Willie Winkie with a candlestickStill writing songs in the wee wee hoursOn Charlotte Street I takeA walking stick from my hotelThe ghost of Dirty DickIs still in search of Little NellAnd it's what it isIt's what it is nowOh what it isWhat it is now

~ Mark Knopfler

Yes, if the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story.

~ Nico J. Genes

The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories.

~ Sarah Vowell

Time is a strange storyteller. It writes, erases and rewrites endlessly. Things change, places and people become unrecognizable, but stories are repeated endlessly

~ Vandana Shanker

There is wisdom out there that can’t be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won’t condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.

~ Lance Conrad

Stop making excuses and start making history.

~ A.d. Posey

Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we make our own history, if we tell stories that bring us together, we'll be stronger. It'll give us something to believe in. The sickos can't do that – they're no better than animals – but we can. Every battle we win we have to tell the story over and over, so that we can win more battles. People love stories. They've told stories since even before they could write. Myths and legends, stories of heroes and villains, gods and monsters. Real things happened, the story got told and then the stories became legends. That's what we've got to do – tell our own heroic stories.

~ Charlie Higson

The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.

~ William Manchester

Nothing opens up the mind and the heart like books do, and so they have the power to change the whole world. That's why the are burning books, Ava. To stop us thinking, and feeling, and imagining...

~ Kate Forsyth

Ava's father believed that myths and fairy tales - like dreams - opened a window into the unconscious. by listening to the language of dreams and old tales, he said, all humans could learn to understand themselves and the world, better.

~ Kate Forsyth

Storytelling is ultimately the only way that we know besides song, dance, painting, and music to share with our tribesmen what it means to be human, express the indefinable feelings that unite humankind.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The principles of storytelling are immutable, explaining why we see shards of ourselves in other people’s stories. All enduring stories predicate its themes upon humankind’s ability to exercise free will. Without a character’s ability to make choices of how to act, there can be no story. In absence of free will, there is no humanity. Only after God evicted them from the Garden of Eden, could Adam and Eve experience what it means to be human.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Creativity is nature. Nature is creativity.

~ A.d. Posey

We encounter truth within.

~ A.d. Posey

Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.

~ A.d. Posey

Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart.

~ A.d. Posey

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.

~ A.d. Posey

Love is the answer.

~ A.d. Posey

Explore your own peace.

~ A.d. Posey

Take a deep breath. Inhale peace. Exhale happiness.

~ A.d. Posey

In love there is truth, and in truth there is peace.

~ A.d. Posey

Find peace in knowing.

~ A.d. Posey

If you read stories, you find the strength, faith and hope to survive everyday life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hold on to your heart and life will give you wings.

~ A.d. Posey

Gratefulness heightens awareness.

~ A.d. Posey

Your life should reflect your heart.

~ A.d. Posey