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Storytelling Quotes

"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."

"Fiction isn’t bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function"

"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"

"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth"

"The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings"

"The most exciting thing about film is it gives you a voice, it lets you be heard"

"Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry."

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

"I don't like to lie, so when I do, I try to make it more interesting."

"Fiction is a lie that tells us true things."

"Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is."

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else"

"Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit"

"The storyteller's task is to name what is lost"

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