“I think the switch…sometimes gets missed. Even some people who were working on the film, [when I] mentioned the rape scene, they're like, "The what scene?"”— Rose Glass, elle.com
“I follow my passion, things that I love to do, like writing and storytelling, I enjoy that. I don’t find myself having to remind myself to work hard and push myself to stay on top of things because I just love doing it.”— Kobe Bryant, huffingtonpost.com
“It reminds me what it is to be interested in someone else’s stories, how crucial it is for that person to be willing to share them in the first place. The openness that is required.”— Nicole Stawiarski, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s flourishing now as one of the web’s most compelling storytelling platforms, a repository for uplifting confessions, compressed screeds, some with candidly political overtones, self-help digests, mini essays and speculative musings and, perhaps most compellingly, serialized memoirs in sound-bite…”— Ruth La Ferla, nytimes.com
“For me, I think, it's musical overload. Got so much to say, such little time.”— Tech N9Ne, theguardian.com
“This is the story of how I died. Don't worry, this is actually a very fun story and the truth is, it isn't even mine. This is the story of a girl named Rapunzel.”— Dan Fogelman, Mark Kennedy, Flynn Rider (voice), Zachary Levi, imdb.com
“Doors have knobs. They can be opened. Writing fiction is one way. Reading, watching, and listening are others.”— Tavi Gevinson, rookiemag.com
“A great storyteller is one who makes you want to experience stories for yourself. A great story is one that makes you think, 'I wonder what it would be like to do that.'”— Christine Byrne, medium.com
“The biggest motivation for [RWBY] is the need to tell a story much like those I needed when I was growing up. The stories about not giving up that pushed me along, and the people I'd meet along the way. Knowing how much all the shows and games I'd played all my life has influenced me, it is a great…”— Monty Oum, crunchyroll.com
“This quality of nuance and multiple interpretations is common to storytelling. It is one reason that adults and children can enjoy the same story together—each age takes from the story the elements that are appropriate.”— David Thornburg, tcpd.org
“For thousands of years, storytelling was a mechanism for teaching. While it was not the only mechanism, it was (and is) an important one. Through storytelling, the wisdom of elders was passed to the next generation.”— David Thornburg, tcpd.org
“Right, I learned to tell stories, but also to listen to stories—a lot of being a hairdresser is listening, and it’s the same with acting. A lot of it is listening to the other person. That makes it real. The best thing for me to do is to get up and go to the set, or go work out with my co-stars or o…”— Danny DeVito, the-talks.com
“Storytelling is just simplifying what’s happening to you. Life is just a story. Stuff that happens to you, you just put into story mode. I just take what’s there and put it into story mode on a smaller level so that you can be like, ‘Oh my God, that’s life! I totally relate to that.’”— Donald Glover, esquire.com
“All stories begun and enacted by men unfold their true meaning only when they have come to their end.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com
“If you can see a picture in your mind and describe it, others will stay tuned in.”— Roger Ailes, amazon.com
“It’s like this dog in Japan. The dog had an owner. And the owner would go to the train every day. And the dog would follow the owner to the train and then be there at the exact time the owner came back from work off the train. The dog would be waiting on the train platform. Then one day the owner di…”— John Mayer, youtube.com
“there are a lot of bad stories out there doing real harm in the world it’s up to us to tell better ones”— Saladin Ahmed, twitter.com
“From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.”— Adam Savage, menshealth.com