Storyteller Quotes · Page 24

“Some stories can only be appreciated by the storyteller Some adventures can only be preserved in the heart of the adventurer.”

— Liz Newman

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself,…

— Melissa Rosenberg

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

At first, being a storyteller, it was fun to dress up and fun to sing songs and pretend to be very dramatic…

— Kelly McCreary

I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of…

— Ken Follett

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a…

— Adam Rapp

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

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

Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has…

— Michael J. Sullivan

“In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to.”

— Maarten Schäfer

Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller,…

— Dan Ariely

I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological…

— Ayad Akhtar

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father…

— Stephen Greenblatt

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

Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I…

— Freedy Johnston

I think that people have to have a story. When you tell a story, most people are not good storytellers because they…

— Larry Winget

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a…

— Eric Hoffer

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

— Jim Goldberg

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths…

— Douglas Coupland

Now, the relationship the storyteller has with the audience is a much higher quality relationship. You treat them with a lot more…

— Tim Kring

St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware…

— Flannery O'Connor

I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.

— Sara Paretsky

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already…

— Robert Rodriguez

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom…

— Carlton Cuse

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers,…

— Carmen Agra Deedy