Storytelling Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old storytelling quotes, storytelling sayings, and storytelling proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no one will remember what you say. Nick Morgan
Tell me the facts and I'll learn. Tell me the truth and I'll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in heart forever. Native American Proverb
Story telling is about connecting to other people and helping people to see what you see. Michael Margolis
The story-making process enables us to simplify complex information into the core essence of understanding. Y. Gabriel
Storytelling captures an aspect of childhood experience when being told a story was a common ritual. It's a warm place for most of us and in some ways represents our first listening experience in really listening. Paul Lansky
The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled. Paulo Coelho
Storytelling is the calculated release of information. Alex Garland
Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone. Stephenie Meyer
Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth. Philip Gerard
Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity. Randall Wallace
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves. Kate Forsyth
Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment. Maria Tatar
The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music. Malcolm Gladwell
Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time. Ashwin Sanghi
Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. Tap into it. Peter Guber
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. Alden Ehrenreich
Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers. Levar Burton
Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups. Marshall Ganz
Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community. Parker J. Palmer
The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation. Patricia McCormick