A Quelth of Quotes

I was looking at some quotes on storytelling recently, and I being a storyteller, thought I might share my favorites with you. I was considering changing my tagline, but I decided against it. I realize the very last one from C.S. Lewis doesn't exactly fit with the rest but I really liked enough that I included it anyways. Soooo... deal with it. The three before it are my favorites. Hiii-yah!

"The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in." —Harold Goddard

"There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories." —Ursula K. LeGuin

"Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher..." —Patti Davis

"Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact." — Robert McKee

"The universe is made of stories, not atoms." —Muriel Rukeyser

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next." Delicious Ambiguity —Gilda Radner

"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story." —Walter Cronkite

"The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you’ve done a story justice, you’re in the wrong business." —Robin McKinley

"Rule one of reading other people’s stories is that whenever you say ‘well that’s not convincing’ the author tells you that’s the bit that wasn’t made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing." —Neil Gaiman

"It’s no coincidence that just at this point in our insight into our mysteriousness as human beings struggling towards compassion, we are also moving into an awakened interest in the language of myth and fairy tale. The language of logical arguments, of proofs, is the language of the limited self we know and can manipulate. But the language of parable and poetry, of storytelling, moves from the imprisoned language of the provable into the freed language of what I must, for lack of another word, continue to call faith." —Madeleine L’Engle

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” -C.S. Lewis