Stephen King Quotes

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

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

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

I appreciate hearing different stories. It inspires me.

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn't going to change just because we've gone electronic. What is changing is that now we're allowing corporations to tell our stories for us.

Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

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.

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

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

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

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.

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.

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

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.