Storyteller Quotes · Page 12

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

— Louis L'Amour

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

— Christine Vachon

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

— Phil Keoghan

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

— Jennifer Weiner

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

— James A. Michener

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

— Linda Simon

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

— Larry Clark

I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

— Taylor Sheridan

“I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I…

— Chris Cleave

At first, being a storyteller, it was fun to dress up and fun to sing songs and pretend to be very dramatic…

— Kelly McCreary

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share…

— Sarah Kay

All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

I like explaining things, and I believe that you can do very high-level explanation on basic cable news provided you are willing…

— Rachel Maddow

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were…

— Jens Lekman

My dad is a storyteller. I've heard his funny stories 500 times, but I would never stop him because he tells them…

— Sarah Millican

“When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place by…

— Jim Henson Productions

To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I…

— Ruth Sawyer

Well, equity matters. I hope that most of us believe that we actually would all benefit from living in a more equitable…

— John Landgraf

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think of myself as a storytelling, and one of the reasons why people have held my stuff close to them is…

— Neal Adams

I would say the only one person I know of who kind of combines the elements that my father brought to the…

— John Buffalo Mailer

I think artists are going to express things from an emotional point of view, that's their job, to suggest and interpret, and…

— Maynard James Keenan

“I am a story-teller, even a story-teller of renown. May I add now that I am not much to look at? No,…

— Mukta Singh-Zocchi

“Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the…

— Robert Stack

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

— Edwidge Danticat

There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.

— Tomm Moore

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

— Michael Bergdahl

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

— Ian McDiarmid

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

— Rodney Crowell

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

— Michael Kimmelman

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

— Tyler Perry

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

— Joshua Bell

You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.

— Bonnie Hammer

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

— Tanith Lee

I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts.…

— Ruskin Bond

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the…

— Maria Semple

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

— Ralph Waite

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what…

— Lesli Linka Glatter

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

— Robert Redford