Storytelling Quotes from Great Writers

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A collection of 16 Storytelling quotes from succesful writers such as Leo Tolstoy, Robert McKee, Alan Moore and Lewis Caroll. Enjoy! http://storytellingcardgame.wordpress.com/

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Storytelling quotes

Storytelling quotes

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Storytelling quotes

When someone is mean to

me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

Storytelling quotes

The purpose of a storyteller is not

to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Storytelling quotes

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums.

When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

Storytelling quotes

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

Storytelling quotes

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

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A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and

foreign is not interesting - only the deeply personal and familiar.

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A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

Sick storytellers can make nations sick. W ithout stories we would go mad.

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It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

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Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

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A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

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...required for good fiction: character,

conflict, change through time. And if

you're really blessed, you get

resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way

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Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

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He paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. - My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck… - Was? - Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.

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I'll tell you a secret. Old

storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.

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