Storyteller Quotes · Page 8

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

— Marion Dane Bauer

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own…

— Stan Lee

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

— Robert McKee

“Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working' .”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Danny Huston

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

— Nic Pizzolatto

People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.

— Shonda Rhimes

My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but…

— Ciaran Hinds

Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like…

— Debby Ryan

I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be…

— Bryce Courtenay

“No one could say the stories were useless for as the tongue clacked five or forty fingers stitched corn was grated from…

— Liz Lochhead

I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was…

— Robbie Robertson

Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his…

— John Burnham Schwartz

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms…

— Terri Windling

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

TV is such a success nowadays because it gives back in a way that features can't. If you go to a film,…

— Milo Ventimiglia

I'm obsessed with this idea of storytellers and people who have a narrative, and sometimes sustain a relationship because they're telling a…

— Atom Egoyan

My greatest strength as a writer is that I'm a storyteller. But, it was a long, hard struggle for me to make…

— Debbie Macomber

What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a…

— Rebecca Solnit

“I would go to parties and say I was an editor, and people, especially women – and that was important to me…

— Peter Ferry

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who…

— Isak Dinesen

The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a…

— J. Cole

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

— Ron Franscell

“First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.”

— Amit Kalantri

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

— Rebecca Solnit

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

— Diablo Cody

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

— Daniel Wallace

“Some stories can only be appreciated by the storyteller Some adventures can only be preserved in the heart of the adventurer.”

— Liz Newman

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic…

— Curtis Hanson

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

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Angelique Kidjo

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

— Anonymous

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

— Michael Chabon

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

— Spike Lee

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

— Eden Robinson

Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see…

— Sadie Calvano

“I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, one who is half hacker, half bard.”

— Janet H. Murray