This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with…

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

— Anonymous

“We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again ... .”

— Disney Publishing Worldwide

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

— Peter Greenaway

“History in the storyteller's hand was a potent force indeed,…”

— Kate Morton

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

— Rebecca Solnit

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Donna Tartt