Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

History is a distillation of rumor.

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing.

In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

Stories always seem to get better with age.

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

In my family, telling stories is just a way of life.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

A good story never dies.

Jack’s life had more to do with myth, legend, saga, and story than with political theory or political science.

Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.