Storytellers Quotes · Page 4

I grow tired of these fuckin' grown man liars storytellers, they ain't even need a campfire.

— Drake

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers.

— Paul Bettany

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

— Kamand Kojouri

The old storytellers took the stories that meant something to them and rearranged the pieces to say something.

— Travis Beacham

“Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm a storyteller. My whole family is storytellers. I'm just a product of my environment.

— Eddie Griffin

“Storytellers are not priests who commune with an ethereal realm but artisans, like dumpling makers, if somewhat slower.”

— David Mitchell

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

I'm Jewish, I can say it. We're storytellers. We were the moneylenders... Therefore we tell great tales to get what we need.…

— Patti Stanger

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

“Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens…

— Peter Brooks

“He was a good storyteller, but he told the kind of stories that made children run away from the village and adults…

— Sorin Suciu

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing…

— Irvine Welsh

“Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but…

— Amit Kalantri

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

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

“The writer's craft, explained! I have stood on the shores of imagination, gazing at a sea of dreams. It is a lonely…

— Barry Woodham

“There are no new stories in the world anymore, and no more storytellers. There is nothing left but fragments of phrases that…

— Dexter Palmer

My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were…

— Edwidge Danticat

“Great leaders are great storytellers. These leaders know that they must tell powerful stories to engage and enlist their followers. They know…

— Nick Morgan

THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is…

— Joshilyn Jackson

I've always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby - more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching…

— Al Madrigal

“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.”

— Bailey Elizabeth

I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.

— Vera Nazarian

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

— Alice Walker

“Storytellers are individuals who enjoy creating a holiday for the mind.”

— Linda Daly

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

— Beeban Kidron

“An artist is ultimately remembered for creating an uncompromised body of work. Uncompromised, unfettered and fiercely passionate.”

— Nidhie sharma

“We can't meaningfully proceed with healing, with restoration, without "re-story-ation".”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“Do not be scared Tarek, it is but a tale, and our stories are vital. When a storyteller dies, it is like…

— David Baillie

“Tonight is the night of telling our stories. You tell three and I four.”

— Avijeet Das

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth.

— DeRay Mckesson

Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.

— Amy Pascal

Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.

— Twinkle Khanna

We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.

— Noma Dumezweni

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

— Stefan Sagmeister

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

— Michael Kimmelman