Storyteller Quotes · Page 7

I'm not much of a storyteller with words!

— Brad Mehldau

“Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.”

— Arzum Uzun

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

— Richard Attenborough

I consider myself a better storyteller than a Dungeon Master.

— Matthew Mercer

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

— Marion Dane Bauer

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

— Diablo Cody

It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a…

— J. Cole

Steve Jackson is a born storyteller. He makes you sweat. . .and turn the page.

— Ron Franscell

“First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.”

— Amit Kalantri

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

— Rebecca Solnit

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

— Lloyd Alexander

“Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for…

— Patricia Hickman

I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody…

— Vivian Gornick

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

I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately,…

— James Patterson

My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it.…

— Richard Lewis

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share…

— Sarah Kay

At first, being a storyteller, it was fun to dress up and fun to sing songs and pretend to be very dramatic…

— Kelly McCreary

All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

“If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront…

— Dorothy Allison

Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right…

— Ashwin Sanghi

People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and…

— Gunter Grass

The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must…

— Porochista Khakpour

Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As…

— Robert McKee

Sometimes not honoring your character makes for really good television, but that also can really upset fans. You have to turn things…

— Azita Ghanizada

“The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My grandfather was a prominent executive at Chevron (oil), and of course my father is a fairly radical and progressive environmentalist. But…

— James Redford

As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.

— Vladimir Sorokin

Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be

— Quintin Jardine

“I’m a storyteller. Of all the things I’ve ever done, I’d like to be remembered as a storyteller.”

— Jim Korkis

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

— Matthew McConaughey

I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.

— Harlan Ellison

“~I am neither an author nor a writer. I am a storyteller with good grammar.~”

— Darke Conteur

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

— Jim Goldberg

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

— David Schwimmer

Joss [Whedon] is an excellent storyteller. It really doesn't matter what medium he's working in.

— Patrick Rothfuss

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

— Sandra Dallas

“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.”

— Jacqueline Carey

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

— Kelly Jones