Storyteller Quotes · Page 11

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a…

— Aaron Sorkin

“The storyteller in me asks: what if? And when I try to answer that, a story begins”

— Jane Yolen

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

— John Hawkes

A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

— Phil Keoghan

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

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

— Louis L'Amour

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

— Christine Vachon

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan,…

— J. Cole

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.

— Dalai Lama

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it,…

— Salman Rushdie

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance , while a story must have meaning . The…

— Vera Nazarian

I'm not a horror movie guy, but I think the guy that did Saw, or maybe House or something, he was saying…

— Craig Finn

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm…

— Rick Perlstein

It was very important to me to choose a director like Gary [Ross], whose instincts come from character, who's a storyteller, and…

— Nina Jacobson

With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative…

— David Lowery

“Pandora launched into a detailed account of her conversation with the hermit crab, reporting that his name was Shelley, after the poet,…

— Lisa Kleypas

Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a…

— L. Jon Wertheim

I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy,…

— Bernie Mac

I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a…

— Eppu Nuotio

John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of…

— Ron Rash

I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing…

— Kevin D. Williamson

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they…

— Tess Gerritsen

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

— Ruth Park

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week,…

— Jane Fonda

I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.

— John Lithgow

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

— Beeban Kidron

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He's like an H. C. Andersen for adults.

— Stellan Skarsgard

When Slick Rick first hit the scene, I had to practice that British accent. There's no other storyteller like this man.

— Ghostface Killah

The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master

— Robert Hunter

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Ron Shock

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 do this for the next generations. They have to know what traditional alpinism is all about.

— Reinhold Messner

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

— Maarten Schäfer