A Quote by Isabel Allende

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

Isabel Allende

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All My Life Been I Realized Life My Life Only Realized Recently Story Teller

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Isabel Allende
Chilean - Writer
Born: August 2, 1942

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

Isabel Allende

A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is not only dead on arrival, it's already been embalmed. It's safer that way. When a lively story goes dancing out to meet the imagination of a child, the teller loses control over meaning. The child gets to decide what the story means.

Katherine Paterson

I couldn't tell a story if my life depended on it. I'm the world's worst joke-teller.

David Shields

Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.

Terry Tempest Williams

Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared.

Terry Tempest Williams

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

Michael Welch

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

Malcolm Gladwell

Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious study of how story affects the human mind. Results repeatedly show that our attitudes, fears, hopes, and values are strongly influenced by story. In fact, fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than writing that is specifically designed to persuade through argument and evidence.