History in the storyteller's hand was a potent force…

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have -…

— Chinua Achebe

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

— Sebastiao Salgado

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

— J. Martin Kohe

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

— Charlotte Bronte

“In the twenty-first century fiction might thereby become the most potent force on earth, surpassing even wayward asteroids and natural selection.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There…

— Natalie Massenet

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as…

— Ben Okri

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

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

— Sarah Kay

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how…

— Sol Saks

I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who…

— Patricia Briggs

I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was…

— Linda Conrad

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

— Donna Tartt