Storyteller Quotes · Page 9

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

— Michael Morpurgo

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

— Isabel Allende

What creates success on HSN is great product, a great story and a great storyteller.

— Mindy Grossman

I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared…

— Ian Doescher

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

— Tanith Lee

I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts.…

— Ruskin Bond

You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.

— Bonnie Hammer

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

— Robert Redford

I'm a storyteller... I haves a God-given gift that I can share with you and perhaps entertain you and bring you along…

— Kurt Sutter

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling]…

— Orson Welles

As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep…

— Federico Fellini

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he…

— Patti Davis

I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency…

— Bran Ferren

I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having…

— Bill Plympton

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were…

— Karen Abbott

Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human…

— Jane Yolen

We need saints; we need this head - this talking head - to communicate. Every single religion you have people that go…

— Vik Muniz

I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being…

— Jean Rouch

Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

I, as a storyteller, was asking questions no one in science had apparently asked. What happens in a nest of tyrannosaurs? They're…

— Stephen R. Bissette

William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles…

— Marchette Chute

I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those…

— Patricia Briggs

I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller,…

— Ben Kingsley

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the…

— Maria Semple

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

— Ralph Waite

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what…

— Lesli Linka Glatter

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

— Ian McDiarmid

There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.

— Tomm Moore

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

— Michael Bergdahl

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

— Joshua Bell

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

— Tyler Perry

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

— Michael Kimmelman

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

— Rodney Crowell

Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.

— Linda Simon

If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.

— Larry Clark

I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

— Taylor Sheridan

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

— Louis L'Amour

I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

— Jennifer Weiner

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

— James A. Michener