To be Human is to be a storyteller. – Barbara K. Walker
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. – Hannah Arendt
Story gives people enough space to think for themselves. – Annette Simmons
Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle. – Robert Olen Butler
To hell with facts! We need stories! – Ken Kesey
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. – Rudyard Kipling
The story—from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace—is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind for the purpose of understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. – Ursula K. Le Guin
This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. – Terry Tempest Williams
for the soul. – Natalie Kusz, Road Song, 1990
If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. – Barry Lopez
It is said that the first storyteller crept at night to listen to the gods talking in their sleep — so each tale collected contained the breath of gods. – Author unknown
Those who tell the stories rule the world. – Hopi proverb
It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story. – Native American saying
The child began reading favorite stories of magic to the river, believing the tales would be carried to someone in need. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com
The universe is made of stories, not atoms. – Muriel Rukeyser
Australian Aborigines say that the big stories—the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life—are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush. – Robert Moss
The best of the old stories spoke to the listener because they spoke not just to the ears but to the heart as well. – Jane Yolen
Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos. – Jane Yolen
Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you. – Alice Walker
Stories give color to black and white information. – Todd Stocker
