I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able… — Ajay Naidu Copy Share Image
I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to… — Catie Curtis Copy Share Image
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Jesus was a storyteller with amazing messages wrapped around them. What we want to do is get back to that. I'm not… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to… — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
As for major obstacles keeping young Latinos from becoming filmmakers, I think our communities are still coming into their identities as storytellers.… — Aurora Guerrero Copy Share Image
To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
I'm hardly a known name, but I don't want to go, like, 'Oh, people call me a storyteller comedian, let me just… — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image
I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Fan feedback going from a box of letters once every few months to literally tweeting while the show is airing. We are… — Greg Berlanti Copy Share Image
I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“What does the story mean, then?” “It means what you want it to mean,” Hoid said. “The purpose of a storyteller is… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The more forcibly I'm made aware of the fact that I'll never be the kind of storyteller I most admire, the less… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
The Art of Elysium is a program I've volunteered with for close to ten years, and I work with Unicef and Young… — Danielle Panabaker Copy Share Image
True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've… — David Farland Copy Share Image
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I wanted to do what I was seeing Dorothy Dandridge doing, what I saw Marilyn Monroe do, what I saw Bette Davis… — Lynn Whitfield Copy Share Image
“All good stories are true. Even if they were completely made up by the storyteller, there is something in them that resonates… — C.E. Laureano Copy Share Image
Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T.… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are… — Larenz Tate Copy Share Image
What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the… — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
