“To be a person is to have a story to tell.”
Karen Blixen (writing under the pen name Isak Dinesen), Danish Author
“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”
Robert McAfee Brown, American Writer
“Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It’s one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.”
Russell Banks, American Writer
“It’s all storytelling, you know. That’s what journalism is all about.”
Tom Brokaw, American Journalist
“You have to have a strong title. It’s got to say something.”
Jim Capaldi, English Songwriter
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, American Author
“Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons’ subversive story telling, but there’s another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.”
Matt Groening, American Cartoonist
“The story is more important to me than the part.”
Catherine Deneuve, French Actress
“It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”
Italo Calvino, Italian Author
“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 of themselves like grass.”
Eudora Welty, American Author