Storyteller Quotes · Page 6

“Emotions are the primary tool of the Storyteller.”

— Ken Farmer

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

— Richard Bausch

Jackie Chan is the best storyteller on this planet.

— Disha Patani

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

— Anne Lamott

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

— Henry Rollins

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

— Joss Whedon

“Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I realized that I've always been a storyteller.

— Joely Fisher

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

— Ira Glass

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

— Mark Richard

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

— Angelique Kidjo

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

— Anonymous

“Some stories can only be appreciated by the storyteller Some adventures can only be preserved in the heart of the adventurer.”

— Liz Newman

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

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts…

— Damon Lindelof

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

“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

People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or…

— Colm Toibin

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art,…

— Rebecca Solnit

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 certainly no Bruce Springsteen in terms of being a storyteller, but I'm trying to get a better handle on it and…

— Myles Kennedy

“Yet every great storyteller knows it’s the fine art of taking me by the hand and showing me that has the most…

— Rene Gutteridge

“Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“He wrote as if he were the reader. It was also how he kept his writing from becoming too cute, which is…

— Richard Castle

Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston…

— Robert McKee

What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But,…

— Brandon Sanderson

“The novel comes from a long shamanic tradition wherein the shaman-storyteller himself is transformed, no longer storyteller but a character, an animal,…

— Hal Zina Bennett

Amanda Ashley is a master storyteller.

— Christine Feehan

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

— Marian Keyes

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

— Jackie Collins

“Light a campfire and everyone’s a storyteller”

— john j geddes

The more you read, the better you're going to become as a storyteller.

— Stan Lee

I like to think of myself as a storyteller,

— Kate DiCamillo

“Once upon a time, there was a story. But no one to tell it.”

— A.D.Y. Howle

Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.

— Matthew J. Kirby