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Discover the power of storytelling with our curated collection of quotes. Explore the wisdom and insights from renowned authors and orators who understand the magic of a well-told story. From captivating novels to inspiring speeches, these quotes shed light on the importance of storytelling in creating connections, preserving culture, and inspiring change. Whether you're a writer, presenter, or simply a lover of stories, these words will ignite your imagination and remind you of the transformative power that lies within a narrative. Explore the art and essence of storytelling through this collection of thought-provoking quotes.

I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way. Read Summary

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. Read Summary

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me. Read Summary

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. Read Summary

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. Read Summary

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so. Read Summary

I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego. Read Summary

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. Read Summary

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. Read Summary

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen. Read Summary

I listen to everything that sounds good with a story. I even listen to Adele. I listen to all kinds of music. Everything with a story that I can listen to and close my eyes and visualize it. I just love music. Read Summary

Somebody who really influenced me since a kid was Lil Phat. He was just telling his life story. Read Summary

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal. Read Summary

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it. Read Summary

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family - my aunties, grandparents - is in Africa. Read Summary

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. Read Summary

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in. Read Summary

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. Read Summary

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in. Read Summary

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in. Read Summary