The Storyteller Quotes

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

Cher is really down-to-earth, very nurturing, incredibly funny and fun, a great storyteller, and creates a great environment on the set.

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.

I'm not much of a storyteller with words!

I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, 'Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'.

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.

When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

Amanda Ashley is a master storyteller.

In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with novels and imagining a life of being a storyteller.

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.

As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart. They are a big reason I'm a storyteller because they are two of the best.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately, there are millions who do.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.