Beeban Kidron Quotes

Storytelling is essentially what we do.

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.

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

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

I like telling stories.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade.

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.

Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

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

Storytelling is the important thing.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition.

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

We are the only animal that tells stories.

It's important to tell stories, and it's a worthwhile thing to do.

We are the storytelling animal.

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.

I really love storytelling.