Quotes+About+Storytelling

"I will open my mouth in a parable  I will utter dark sayings of old.  Things that we have heard and known,  that our fathers told us.  We will not hide them from their children,  but tell it to the coming generations. " -Psalm 78: 1-4
 * The Bible:**

"It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about."
 * Tom Brokaw:**

"Many people don’t realize the extent to which stories influence our behavior and even shape our culture. Think about how Bible stories teach the fundamentals of religion and rules of conduct. Think of the fables and parables that molded your values. Think of how stories about your national, cultural or family history have shaped your attitudes about yourself and others."
 * Isak Dinesen:**

"The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in."
 * Harold Goddard:**

"It's no coincidence that just at this point in our insight into our mysteriousness as human beings struggling towards compassion, we are also moving into an awakened interest in the language of myth and fairy tale. The language of logical arguments, of proofs, is the language of the limited self we know and can manipulate. But the language of parable and poetry, of storytelling, moves from the imprisoned language of the provable into the freed language of what I must, for lack of another word, continue to call faith."
 * Madeline L'Engle:**

"There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories."
 * Ursula K. LeGuin:**

"If people aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read or write?"
 * George Lucas:**

"Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact."
 * Robert McKee:**

"Stories are our primary tools of learning and teaching, the repositories of our lore and legends. They bring order into our confusing world. Think about how many times a day you use stories to pass along data, insights, memories or common-sense advice."
 * Edward Miller:**

"Storytelling is powerful because it has the ability to touch human beings at the most personal level. While facts are viewed from the lens of a microscope, stories are viewed from the lens of the soul. Stories address us on every level. They speak to the mind, the body, the emotions, the spirit, and the will. In a story a person can identify with situations he or she has never been in. The individual’s imagination is unlocked to dream what was previously unimaginable."
 * Mark Miller:**

"History is nothing but a series of stories, whether it be world history or family history."
 * Bill Mooney & David Holt:**

"Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts."
 * Salmon Rushdie:**

"In the end all we have…are stories and methods of finding and using those stories."
 * Robert C. Shank:**

"Many people don’t realize the extent to which stories influence our behavior and even shape our culture. Think about how Bible stories teach the fundamentals of religion and rules of conduct. Think of the fables and parables that molded your values. Think of how stories about your national, cultural or family history have shaped your attitudes about yourself and others."
 * Lawrence Shapiro:**

“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.”
 * Eudora Welty**