Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

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

It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.

The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

Online personal branding is not about self-promotion... it's about transferring your real world reputation into the online world.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” [Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857]

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.

The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.

In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.