Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page.… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it… — Philip Pullman 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
I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
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
There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in… — Chinua Achebe 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
Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy,… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do… — John Romita, Sr Copy Share Image
“I must have been chosen because I know it all from beginning to end. I am certainly not the story itself. I… — Alfredo Véa Copy Share Image
The great thing about television is that you get to tell, like with "The Walking Dead", 16 hours worth of character-driven storytelling… — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
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 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
I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
