The Storyteller Quotes

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what your story is about.

Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.

Sandeep Jauhar is a compelling storyteller, and Doctored gives us a fantastic tour through the seedy underworld of American medicine.

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

It was very important to me to choose a director like Gary [Ross], whose instincts come from character, who's a storyteller, and who puts characters first.

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit at her knee, the hearth.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

Joss [Whedon] is an excellent storyteller. It really doesn't matter what medium he's working in.

A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

Steve Jackson is a born storyteller. He makes you sweat. . .and turn the page.

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.

I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To me, the Bible is a manifesto, a guide, a love letter, a story.

The more you read, the better you're going to become as a storyteller.

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.

As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.

I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.

I am a storyteller and experience the bliss of writing.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.

I meet people and they become chapters in my stories.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

If I were a zombieI'd never eat your brainI'd just want your heart

That's what you would do with untold power? Eat cake?