Storyteller Quotes · Page 22

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

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

— Marian Keyes

First, the skill of storytelling helps to galvanize your team. Second, the discipline of storytelling requires leaders to be clear about their…

— Gary A. Klein

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

— Nikki Giovanni

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

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

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

— Richard Bausch

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

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the…

— Robert Stack

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

— Terence Winter

“Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.”

— Arzum Uzun

I see myself as a storyteller.

— Susanne Bier

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

— Bat for Lashes

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

When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.

— John Hawkes

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

— Lionel Richie

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the…

— Nikki Giovanni

I wanted always to be a storyteller of the fullest expression.

— Mara Brock Akil

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally…

— Chris Cavanaugh

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

— Alistair Maclean

The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. If…

— Gerald Hausman

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

Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor…

— Brian McDonald

I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand,…

— Brian Greene