“Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.”— Sarah Kay, ted.com
“By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“Creating skillful native content has little to do with selling and a lot to do with skillful storytelling.”— Gary Vaynerchuk, amazon.com
“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”— Flannery O’Connor, amazon.com
“I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted,…”— Terry Goodkind, goodreads.com
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.”— Sandra Dallas, amazon.com
“Overcoming the Monster Rags to Riches The Quest Voyage and Return Comedy Tragedy Rebirth”— Christopher Booker, en.wikipedia.org
“Supplication (in which the Supplicant must beg something from Power in authority) Deliverance Crime Pursued by Vengeance Vengeance taken for kindred upon kindred Pursuit Disaster Falling Prey to Cruelty of Misfortune Revolt Daring Enterprise Abduction The Enigma (temptation or a riddle) Obtaining En…”— Georges Polti, en.wikipedia.org
“Quest Adventure Pursuit Rescue Escape Revenge The Riddle Rivalry Underdog Temptation Metamorphosis Transformation Maturation Love Forbidden Love Sacrifice Discovery Wretched Excess Ascension Descension”— Ronald Tobias, changingminds.org
“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act that can be met with hostility, exclusion, and violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, and community. I hope that my being real with you will h…”— Janet Mock, amazon.com
“At a time when so much of our politics is trying to manage this clash of cultures brought about by globalization and technology and migration, the role of stories to unify — as opposed to divide, to engage rather than to marginalize — is more important than ever.”— Barack Obama, nytimes.com
“Nevertheless, there is important work to be done in philosophy, journalism, biography, and other genres that may never be bestsellers but are just as important to society. Such stories are like elegant math problems that, while not applicable to a wide audience, are still useful to those who know ho…”— Chris Lavergne, techcrunch.com
“I believed that stories helped us to ennoble ourselves, to fix what was broken in us, and to help us become the people we dreamed of being. Lies that told a deeper truth.”— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“To say that stories either have happy or unhappy endings may seem such a commonplace that one almost hesitates to utter it. But it has to be said, simply because it is the most important single thing to be observed about stories.”— Christopher Booker, amazon.com
“The Why is the single most powerful way to get the ripple that connects a story to its audience. Why this audience? Why should they care about you and what you have to say? Why do you have the credibility and right to be having this conversation? Why is this considered storytelling and not repurpose…”— Shannon Pruitt, adweek.com
“Everybody always gets the glorifying the street cred, but what about the cats that’s trying they best to escape the negativity, but always get swarmed back in because of the circumstances around them? Nobody never told that story…”— Kendrick Lamar, vibe.com
“Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”— Ibn Battuta, goodreads.com