Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its… — Ken Saro-Wiwa Copy Share Image
I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
If you look at the least effective of the 'Twilight' movies, it was when they brought in an action-movie director instead of… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I make the joke, all the time, that if you have the word "man" and a number in the title, like Batman… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
