“Storytelling is for all people. Storytelling is alive and well because people are so hungry for stories, they'll watch TV six hours a day.”
David Gonzalez
“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
“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
“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
“Jesus was the great storyteller. He made his points by telling parables or stories.”
David Williamson
“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
“[Perez is a wonderful storyteller in the piece showing a rare openness.] People had told me 'Tony Perez was private. He's not controversial. He won't say too much,' ... But he was so unbelievably open. It's the subject. They (Latin ballplayers) all want to talk about this.”
Dan Klores
