Storytelling Quotes

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." "Man is the storytelling animal." "Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told." "For me, it always goes back to the desire to tell a story, to entertain and to surprise people." "I’m fascinated by the idea of perception, that’s why I love the science fiction genre. It allows you to bend reality." "You can do universal themes in a community setting but you can't do community themes in a universal setting." "The good of a book lies in its being read." "The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts " "The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out " "Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell " "The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment." "The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories" "A little bit of the legend works because it's just poetry" "Document, don't create." "Anything you dream is fiction."