Storytelling Quotes

Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Be brave to share your story! Each of our stories, have a golden treasure for a specific need.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Truly, there is magic in fairy

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

~ Walt Disney Company

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.


~ Sara Sheridan

The most powerful words in English are, Tell me a story.

~ Pat Conroy

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

~ C.s. Lewis

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

~ G.k. Chesterton

By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

~ Alan Kay

As soon as we open our eyes in the morning, what we want most is to matter, to live a life and to do a work that has meaning. We have evolved to feel this way. Man's first thought was 'I AM'.

~ Bernadette Jiwa

Love that Literature.

~ S. Mcpherson

The bigger the dream, the better the story.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

~ Vera Nazarian

He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.

~ A.k. Kuykendall

A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing what you believe. They end up turning into keepsakes and mementos—like amber in which a memory gets trapped.

~ Michael Chabon

Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.

~ Noam Shpancer

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

~ Siri Hustvedt

When I was very little, my mother used to say there was something of my grandmother in me, in how I tell stories the way I need them to be and not the way they actually happened.

~ Danielle Evans

You remember it your way and I'll remember it mine.

~ Jon Chopan

The whole of eternity is present now. We apprehend eternity through our senses and mental imagination. We can never recapture lost time. Memory allows us to taste the scintillating experience of living by recollecting our past in a series of sequential personal events and an orderly arrangement of a linked series of cultural happenings. Writing our personal story calls for us to remember the sensation of what it entails to live tactilely before losing lucidity of the mind.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead.

~ Okey Ndibe

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

~ Jennifer Mcmahon

Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is reallythe only proper way to begin a story--the only way that reallysmacks of romance and fairyland--

~ L.m. Montgomery

Of course I believe in magic. I believe in storytelling.

~ Luke Taylor

There is magic in the old and magic in the new, the trick is to successfully combine the two.

~ A.d. Posey

Live whatever draws out the magic within.

~ A.d. Posey

Once you realize life is magic, you will never look upon the world with dimmed eyes again.

~ A.d. Posey

Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.

~ Amit Kalantri

Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it.

~ Amit Kalantri

Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect.

~ Amit Kalantri

First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.

~ Amit Kalantri

Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.

~ Amit Kalantri

Magician is the best storyteller in the world.

~ Amit Kalantri

Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.

~ Amit Kalantri

The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.

~ Haruki Murakami

Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.

~ Cathleen Falsani

The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop's Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the way some discern clue after perplexing clue in their Beatle albums as evidence for a cover-up of Paul's having died in a car accident.

~ Jared C. Wilson

By telling stories, Jesus isn’t somehow putting sugar in a spoon to make the medicine go down a bit easier. These stories are the medicine. These stories are an extension and explanation of Jesus’ revolutionary ministry. These stories show us that things are not as they appear. Our tidy, well-packaged ideas about spirituality, faith, and reality shatter when confronted by Christ and the God he represents.

~ Ronnie Mcbrayer