Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Quotes

A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.

Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

I appreciate hearing different stories. It inspires me.

Storytellers all, we humans might run out of time even as we triumph over the problem of running out of space. But we will never run out of stories.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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.

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

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

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

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.

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

I like telling stories.

I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

People love stories. They need stories.

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

There are no really new stories anymore.

I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.