Storyteller Quotes · Page 7

“Empathy is, first of all, an act of imagination, a storyteller's art”

— Anonymous

“If I were a zombie I'd never eat your brain I'd just want your heart”

— Stephanie Mabey

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

— Oliver North

At the core, I'm a filmmaker and a storyteller.

— John Schneider

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.”

— Orson Scott Card

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

— Anne Rice

“Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.”

— Amit Kalantri

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

— Salman Rushdie

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

— James Welch

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

— James Rollins

I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

— Conor McPherson

I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him…

— John le Carre

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom…

— Carlton Cuse

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in…

— Chinua Achebe

The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an…

— Harrison Ford

“The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance , while a story must have meaning . The…

— Vera Nazarian

I'm not a horror movie guy, but I think the guy that did Saw, or maybe House or something, he was saying…

— Craig Finn

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm…

— Rick Perlstein

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

— Nina Jacobson

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if…

— Taylor Swift

Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has…

— Michael J. Sullivan

A common question asked of writers is "When did you decide to become a writer?" The answer, of course, is that we…

— Mary Higgins Clark

Now, the relationship the storyteller has with the audience is a much higher quality relationship. You treat them with a lot more…

— Tim Kring

“I firmly believe that a good storyteller's education never ends, because to tell stories perfectly you have to know everything about everything.…

— Orson Scott Card

“remembered the words of the man in the brown suit, and how they had echoed around the rafters of my rooms under…

— Diane Setterfield

Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

“I would travel far and wide...seeing, listening, creating. I would weave tales for an enthralled audience. A song would be heard throughout…

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

— Harvey Cox

I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.

— Dianne Reeves

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

— Terri Windling

I see myself as a storyteller and want to do films that are being made all over the world.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

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

— Nir Hod

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

— Rebecca Miller

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

— Young-Ha Kim

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd…

— Leanne Pooley

The basic idea of making this film was that even if one person is touched by the thought in the film, then…

— Karan Wahi

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

— Donna Tartt

Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.

— Susan Burton

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

— Jake Gyllenhaal