Storytelling Quotes

"In a story, you only had to wish you were somewhere, and you were there" "You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not." "I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me" "When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it." "Love is the answer to everything It's the only reason to do anything If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it" "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" "The essence of acting is to communicate to every audience member." "Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language" "Great questions make great reporting" "If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats" "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return" "In order to write about life first you must live it" "The more one is conscious of the author’s presence, the greater the distance between the reader and the story" "What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books" "If you don't like someone's story, write your own " "Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart" "A world without stories would be a world without love" "The story is everything, which means that it's always something of an adventure to tell it" "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." "We live for books"