Storyteller Quotes · Page 2

For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend,…

— Jacqueline Carey

I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens…

— Murasaki Shikibu

When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation.…

— Rebecca Miller

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.

— Dave Allen

I'm a storyteller... I haves a God-given gift that I can share with you and perhaps entertain you and bring you along…

— Kurt Sutter

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

— Chris Ware

I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a…

— Adrian Grenier

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

— David Eddings

I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing…

— Kevin D. Williamson

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

— James Robertson

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

— John Irving

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

— Kazimir Malevich

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

— Linda Conrad

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

— Chinua Achebe

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

— Neil Gaiman

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will…

— Chris Cleave

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

— Sol Saks

Amanda Ashley is a master storyteller.

— Christine Feehan

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

— Chris Cleave

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

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

The more forcibly I'm made aware of the fact that I'll never be the kind of storyteller I most admire, the less…

— Helen Oyeyemi

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

— Sarah Kay

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

— Terri Windling

To me, a good storyteller should be able to tell stories across genres.

— Ravi Subramanian

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

— Rebecca Solnit