Storytelling quotes

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◆ After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
- Philip Pullman100
◆ If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
- Rudyard Kipling99
◆ A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
- Graham Greene99
◆ It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...
- Eudora Welty99
◆ There either is or is not, that's the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it's red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I'm not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I'm going to tell it the way I remember it.
- Charles Dickens99
◆ Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
- Lisa See99
◆ I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
- Philip Pullman99
◆ There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.
- Flannery O'Connor99
◆ To hell with facts! We need stories!
- Ken Kesey99
◆ The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting.
- Stephen King99
◆ My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.
- Diane Setterfield99
◆ But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav-ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.
- Robin McKinley99
◆ ...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.
- Rabih Alameddine99
◆ But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
- Diane Setterfield99
◆ Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
- Umberto Eco99

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