“People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel”

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American author, historian and broadcaster 1912–2008

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Sarah Vowell book Assassination Vacation

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“People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not."

"Shouldn't the storyteller believe it."

"The storyteller should tell it.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

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“Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.”

Ysabeau S. Wilce American writer

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“This time during the Second World War is part of my history, part of my memory, but it is the latest part of my memory, so the memories of each human being goes much more back, it goes to the dinosaurs, even later [Kiefer means: earlier].... I think we even remember geological times. So this is one little part of our / of mine memory”

Anselm Kiefer (1945) German painter and sculptor

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“Literary scholars end up being some kind of storyteller, too.”

Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer

Writing and Being (1991)

“You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

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“People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.”

Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic

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“No one has ever been angry at another human being—we’re only angry at our story of them.”

Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer

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“Evoking fear is, in itself, an art form – and nothing in the entire history of storytelling has explored it better than video games.”

Ben Croshaw (1983) English video game journalist

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