Storyteller Quotes · Page 6

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State…

— Graham Greene

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

— Isak Dinesen

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

— Chris Cleave

I've always considered myself, at the end of the day, to be kind of a storyteller.

— Ross Mathews

I'm not fighting any causes. I'm black, everybody can see that, but I am a storyteller for the masses.

— Jackie Torrence

Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see…

— Sadie Calvano

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

— Spike Lee

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

— Eden Robinson

I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth.…

— Nas

All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help…

— David Mixner

I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to…

— John Lithgow

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would…

— Steve Saint

I think spending a lot of time with my mom, who's a talker and a storyteller, and my dad, who has kind…

— Mike Birbiglia

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 became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around…

— Bernie Mac

“You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters." “Beautiful and full of monsters?"…

— Laini Taylor

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those…

— Marina Warner

In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do…

— Flannery O'Connor

The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind,…

— Walter Benjamin

“I would go to parties and say I was an editor, and people, especially women – and that was important to me…

— Peter Ferry

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who…

— Isak Dinesen

Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell…

— Ben Kingsley

Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions…

— Daniel Dae Kim

A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner

— Michael Chabon

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

— James Robertson

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

— Alan Rickman

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic…

— Curtis Hanson

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

— Elie Wiesel

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

— Daniel Wallace

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

— Anonymous

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

— Angelique Kidjo

“First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Rebecca Solnit

Steve Jackson is a born storyteller. He makes you sweat. . .and turn the page.

— Ron Franscell

It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a…

— J. Cole

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

— Diablo Cody

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

— Marion Dane Bauer

Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.

— Susan Burton

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

— Jake Gyllenhaal