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 Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a prominent executive at Chevron (oil), and of course my father is a fairly radical and progressive environmentalist. But… — James Redford Copy Share Image
Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I feel like I learn every day how I can be a better producer or writer or storyteller. The thing that keeps… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He unpacks his bag of tales with fingers quick as a weaver's picking the weft threads threading the warp. Watch his fingers.… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I see myself as a storyteller and want to do films that are being made all over the world. — Sobhita Dhulipala Copy Share Image
I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique. — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Some stories can only be appreciated by the storyteller Some adventures can only be preserved in the heart of the adventurer.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
“The storyteller gave me a sideways look. "Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller,… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Now, the relationship the storyteller has with the audience is a much higher quality relationship. You treat them with a lot more… — Tim Kring Copy Share Image
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