Libba Bray Quotes

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

Entertainment is a great form of being able to tell a story and to spread a message.

You need to decide that you're going to use a story to enlighten and inspire people in the modern day.

I want to tell stories of impact.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

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

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

A good story should change the way you see the world.

Data loses to story. Every time. Your statistics don’t trump my experience.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

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.

'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce. Telling to win through purposeful stories is situation, industry, gender, demographic, and psychographic-agnostic. It's an all-purpose, everyone wins tool.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.