Storytellers Quotes

Write what speaks to your soul.

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

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind.

When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins.

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

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.

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

History in the storyteller's hand was a potent force indeed,....

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

Lead with your heart. The rest will follow.

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

When a story gets wedged in your head and refuses to go away, when it keeps coming back, again and again, despite your seeming inability to tell it, know this..the story has chosen you and You are ready, so tell it or it’ll haunt you to the end of your days. Characters too! They will find you, drop anchor and before you know, they will speak through you, shaping their own narrative, their own unique destiny. Let go and allow them. You have no option but to be a channel for them. This joy of surrender can only be felt… never truly explained.

Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.

Stories change the world.

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.

You know that when a utility company is going down the fantasy route, they are likely hiding some illegal activity that they are engaging in. Fabricating fictional stories to their government regulator is just one of the many illegal activities that they engage in.

Don’t let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are.

Reading sparks writing.

Listen to what speaks to your heart.

Be a burst of joy.

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

That which is cool is driven by the soul.

Positive thoughts shape a positive world.

Be what the world needs.

Many politicians are tantalizing storytellers, as they mix facts with fiction, grab our emotion and tell things, they want us to believe. Their factoids are unremittingly reiterated, take a life on their own and in the end become the very truth… until the bubble bursts.("What after bowling alone?" )