“Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning”
Chris Cavanaugh
“To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they”
Ben Okri
“Jesus was the great storyteller. He made his points by telling parables or stories.”
David Williamson
“The tsunami is a critical component in the telling of this story. It's a sensitive storytelling issue.”
John Dykstra
“Some stories just resonate with you as a storyteller and never leave you. This is a story that just kept haunting me.”
M. Night Shyamalan
“All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.”
George Bernard Shaw
“My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.”
Dennis Quaid