Storyteller Quotes · Page 7

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own…

— Stan Lee

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image…

— Nir Hod

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.

— Young-Ha Kim

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd…

— Leanne Pooley

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

— James Welch

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

— James Rollins

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father.…

— Athol Fugard

“I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To…

— Shauna Niequist

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

I want to make a period film, I want to make a film set in another country. I want to make a…

— Zoya Akhtar

I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become…

— Natalie Massenet

The power that you have as a storyteller is to be able to tell stories that are at once entertaining but also…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers…

— Daniel H. Pink

If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall…

— Andrew Stanton

TV is such a success nowadays because it gives back in a way that features can't. If you go to a film,…

— Milo Ventimiglia

I'm obsessed with this idea of storytellers and people who have a narrative, and sometimes sustain a relationship because they're telling a…

— Atom Egoyan

A common question asked of writers is "When did you decide to become a writer?" The answer, of course, is that we…

— Mary Higgins Clark

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if…

— Taylor Swift

“I firmly believe that a good storyteller's education never ends, because to tell stories perfectly you have to know everything about everything.…

— Orson Scott Card

“remembered the words of the man in the brown suit, and how they had echoed around the rafters of my rooms under…

— Diane Setterfield

“The storyteller has always been a valuable member of society. Even in prehistoric times when men hunted wild beasts and lived in…

— D.E. Stevenson

I make the joke, all the time, that if you have the word "man" and a number in the title, like Batman…

— Rob Reiner

“Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.”

— Amit Kalantri

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the…

— Anne Rice

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

— Terri Windling

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

— Harvey Cox

I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.

— Dianne Reeves

I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

— Conor McPherson

“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“Do not be scared Tarek, it is but a tale, and our stories are vital. When a storyteller dies, it is like…

— David Baillie

“Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.”

— Jo Deurbrouck

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

— Agnes Repplier

I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

— Ben Sollee

I'm a storyteller. I do this for the next generations. They have to know what traditional alpinism is all about.

— Reinhold Messner

When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.

— Charles Halford

I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories.

— Ron Shock