“It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.”
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Chinua Achebe 63
Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic 1930–2013Related quotes
On how theater differs from television in “Playwright Kristoffer Diaz steps into the ring” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-aug-21-la-ca-chad-deity-20110821-story.html in the Los Angeles Times (2011 Aug 21)

As quoted in "Fresh Off the Boat Star: I Don't Need to Represent Every Asian Mom Ever" in Time Magazine (10 February 2015) https://time.com/3696111/fresh-off-the-boat-constance-wu/

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
The Workout that Time Forgot, Outside https://www.outsideonline.com/1748821/outside-magazine-jan-2011_r=0

The Birthgrave (1975)
Source: Book Two, Part V “Tower-Eshkorek”, Chapter 3 (p. 303)

Twitter Blog: "The hashtag at 10 years young" https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/the-hashtag-at-ten-years-young.html (23 August 2017)

“A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.”
Source: The Kings and Queens of Roam