Charles de Lint Quotes

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

I really love storytelling.

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

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

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

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.

People love stories. They need stories.

George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.

I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm to my career and love it more, I have a sense that storytelling is healing, in many ways. You can reach an audience and heal, and by heal, I mean entertain and provoke. It's a wonderful life.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.

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

Storytelling is the important thing.

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

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.

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

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

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.

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 like telling stories.

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.