Brene Brown Quotes

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

The great thing about fiction is you can talk about things without being didactic about them, but hopefully forge a connection with people and an understanding about a shared humanity that tells its own story.

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

I'm just a story teller.

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.

I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

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

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

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

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.

The natural milieu I inhabit is more in epic storytelling.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

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.

You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.