Storyteller Quotes · Page 9

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

— Quintin Jardine

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

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Lloyd Alexander

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

— Vladimir Sorokin

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

— Harlan Ellison

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

— Patrick Rothfuss

When you boil it down, it's all a visual expression. In a sense we are all storytellers through what we wear, who…

— Marc Forster

The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that,…

— Cate Blanchett

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems…

— Robin McKinley

I tell stories, and I do it through writing, through acting, through my stand-up, and through directing. All the hats I wear…

— Del Shores

Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks,…

— Paddy Chayefsky

I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth.…

— Nas

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and…

— Erica Jong

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an…

— Danny DeVito

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling,…

— Jane McGonigal

Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I feel like I learn every day how I can be a better producer or writer or storyteller. The thing that keeps…

— J. J. Abrams

“On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of…

— E. J. Banfield

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

I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to…

— Jon Spaihts

Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel…

— Peter Guber

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

— David Schwimmer

“...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

As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room.

— John Singleton

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

Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.

— Amy Pascal

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

— Norman Jewison

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

— Robert Littell

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

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.

— Wes Borland

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

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

— Phil Keoghan

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

— Louis L'Amour