Top 100 Life Storytelling Quotes
#1. Storytelling requires two minds. The writer draws the basic outlines and adds some detail. It's never complete, however, until the reader fills in that outline with the colors and experiences of his or her own life.
Rysa Walker
#2. There is only Love
and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.
Vera Nazarian
#3. This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.
Christina Baldwin
#4. Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.
A.D. Posey
#5. If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.
Ben Wheatley
#6. People who are left alone tell the story but are never a part of it; those who are a part of the crowd, are story bound, acting upon the role assigned to them in the theater of living, loving and longing.
Aporva Kala
#7. In these story telling moments we equip our children, with crucial solution tools for life. To deprive them of these necessary teachable moments is like denying a carpenter the tools of his trade.
Drexel Deal
#9. Give all of life's oxygen to the fire that is your soul.
A.D. Posey
#10. The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.
A.D. Posey
#11. We compose our life in stories we tell ourselves
John Geddes
#12. It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life
Joe Hill
#13. Learning is essential for living the life you love.
A.D. Posey
#14. Hold on to your heart and life will give you wings.
A.D. Posey
#15. I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or her life writing fiction, it is hardly surprising that the pleasures, worries, and mechanics of fiction-making should enter the work.
Norman Lock
#16. I have fallen,
for your words.
They are like,
a gossamer cobweb,
I have been,
embroiled,
decoyed,
snared into!
Incapacitated.
I fail to escape.
I fail to liberate.
Your words,
didn't redeem,
made me a,
captive instead.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#17. Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.
Robert McKee
#19. In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.
Ken Donaldson
#21. 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
#22. The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.
Criss Jami
#23. I always find time to read novels and poetry as well as scripts; I like to enjoy different kinds of storytelling. I spend time at the beach and with my loved ones. I like traveling to unfamiliar places to challenge my perspectives and glean wisdom from other ways of life.
Rose McIver
#24. In life, be a kid in a candy store.
A.D. Posey
#25. Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#26. The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.
The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.
Vera Nazarian
#27. I've never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever. You can tell your story any way you damn well please. It's your solo.
Jandy Nelson
#28. If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.
Cate Blanchett
#29. I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.
Richard Condon
#30. It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.
Cheryl Strayed
#32. To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.
Chester Elijah Branch
#34. If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know your story, you are much more likely to be a skillful parent.
Desmond Tutu
#35. It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.
Patrick Rothfuss
#36. I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
Armistead Maupin
#37. There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.
Jaco Van Dormael
#38. My life: under construction, but beautiful.
A.D. Posey
#39. The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.
Donald Miller
#40. Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#41. I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.
Orlando Bloom
#43. Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories and feel them in our heart. Your life is the most powerful story you can tell.
Martha Beck
#44. Life isn't life without real butter.
A.D. Posey
#45. Your life should always come with hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on top.
A.D. Posey
#46. 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
#47. Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.
Colum McCann
#48. Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!
Ben Mikaelsen
#49. Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.
Ernest Hemingway,
#50. Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.
Sanhita Baruah
#51. Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.
Clare Bowen
#52. Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.
Kevin Smith
#53. Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.
Amit Kalantri
#54. Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life.
A.D. Posey
#55. A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.
Christopher Buehlman
#56. I've certainly collaborated with others for their songs and it's fun. To me, it's exciting to write from a place that doesn't have to be so true to my life and is more just storytelling.
The Rocket Summer
#57. Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.
Ashly Lorenzana
#61. That is the power of a good story. It can encourage you, it can make you laugh, it can bring you joy. It will make you think, it will tap innto your hidden emotions, and it can make you cry. The power of a story can also bring about healing, give you peace, and change your life! (p.15)
Jeff Dixon
#62. I write for the kid in me ... Often when I'm working on a story, I'll find myself laughing at something my characters have done, or even being surprised at where they've taken the story. It's as if they have a life all their own. What I do is create them and then let them go on to entertain me ...
Elvira Woodruff
#63. My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.
Aaron Stanford
#64. Yes, if the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story.
Nico J. Genes
#65. As I've gotten older and my life is a lot more stable, I've gotten more into storytelling.
Scott Weiland
#66. Love is the key to everything. Love your life.
A.D. Posey
#67. Your life should reflect your heart.
A.D. Posey
#68. Maybe your past isn't perfect. Maybe it was brutal. Maybe you were brutal. Maybe you've got more scars than you thought one skin could hold. You can't linger on those thoughts. You will drown in them. After all, it's only an interesting backstory if you can get past it.
Jessica Hagy
#70. Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather
#71. I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.
Eric Close
#72. There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#74. Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.
Anthony Trollope
#76. Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an ancient discipline and vocation to which everyone is called.
Nancy Mellon
#77. My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
Tim O'Brien
#78. Many cultures accept the faulty nature of memory. They know even the photograph only gets it halfway right. They believe there is only one way to bring the dead back to life, story.
Jon Chopan
#79. People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.
Jade Hassoune
#80. Once you realize life is magic, you will never look upon the world with dimmed eyes again.
A.D. Posey
#81. When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity.
A.D. Posey
#82. A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.
George Saunders
#83. You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better themselves. Give them a stranger's life, and then they're content.
Karen Lord
#84. If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.
A.D. Posey
#85. The more intelligent the storytelling becomes and the deeper the character development, people will realize in film and television, like they do in real life, that human beings possess both good and bad.
Robert LaSardo
#86. A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.
Aisha Mirza
#87. The sparkling light inside of me multiplied billion times, hoping something beautiful will come along the way.
Fernando Lachica
#88. We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.
Christina Baldwin
#89. Storytelling explores the problem with people. Stories without conflict are bad stories that no one repeats. Conflict describes the reality of human life and interaction with others. The resolution of the conflict in which everyone lives happily ever after reflects the human yearning for hope.
Harry Lee Poe
#90. Believing in fate has probably always arisen in part because of the delights and terrors of storytelling. We have to realize
to learn
that in life we are not the readers but the authors of our own narratives.
Margaret Visser
#91. I wanted to be a writer as a teen ... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'
Yves Behar
#92. My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.
George Lucas
#94. Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.
Jo Deurbrouck
#95. We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.
Ang Lee
#96. While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.
Richard Kearney
#97. A great snow is the calm death of struggle and the transformative birth of life.
A.D. Posey
#98. All of our lives were a story; their magic came in their retelling. Words could give life everlasting rebirth.
I would accept this challenge. I would use my breath to give life.
J. Lynn Else
#99. Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.
Ashly Lorenzana
#100. Always let life be wild. Forever have life be interesting.
A.D. Posey
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