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Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

Storytelling is the important thing.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

Telling stories and having them received is so important. That dialogue is everything. I tell my students all the time that what separates us as human beings is our ability to hold stories. Our narrative history. There is so much power in that. Storytelling is our human industry.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.