Storytellers Quotes · Page 4

“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.”

— Chuck Wendig

Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth.

— DeRay Mckesson

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

— Amy Pascal

Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.

— Twinkle Khanna

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

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

— Robert Redford

“God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?”

— Tom Spanbauer

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

— Stefan Sagmeister

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

— Orson Welles

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to…

— Bill Harley

“True storytellers write not because they can but because they have to. There is something they want to say about the world…

— John Freeman

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

“All good storytellers are of necessity good writers - even if they may be poorly edited ones. Unfortunately, not all good writers…

— Nupur Tustin

In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories.…

— Maeve Binchy

So much Western storytelling comes from Scandinavia. I've read that in the past, storytellers would travel to Iceland and exchange stories. It's…

— Richard Dormer

Storytellers all, we humans might run out of time even as we triumph over the problem of running out of space. But…

— Tom Junod

“Many politicians are tantalizing storytellers, as they mix facts with fiction, grab our emotion and tell things, they want us to believe.…

— Erik Pevernagie

“We are storytellers with this one life we have been given. We are the main characters in this incredible story, and even…

— Courtney Westlake

The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were…

— Daniel Quinn

My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way…

— Horton Foote

It's significant that four out of the five nominated comedies were run by women. That's not by accident. Women are storytellers, too.…

— Sarah Treem

“Humans are storytellers. It is our nature to make up stories, to interpret everything we perceive. Without awareness, we give our personal…

— Miguel Ruiz

If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. If…

— Gerald Hausman

“Storytelling is an ancient art. The lucent vibes of stories express what we cannot articulate directly. When we hear someone’s story, we…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.

— Noma Dumezweni

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

— Michael Kimmelman

I don't think comedians are better travellers but they are communicators and storytellers.

— David Baddiel

“Storytellers are not priests who commune with an ethereal realm but artisans, like dumpling makers, if somewhat slower.”

— David Mitchell

“Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm a storyteller. My whole family is storytellers. I'm just a product of my environment.

— Eddie Griffin

I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.

— Vera Nazarian

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.”

— Bailey Elizabeth

The old storytellers took the stories that meant something to them and rearranged the pieces to say something.

— Travis Beacham

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers.

— Paul Bettany

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Do not be scared Tarek, it is but a tale, and our stories are vital. When a storyteller dies, it is like…

— David Baillie

“Tonight is the night of telling our stories. You tell three and I four.”

— Avijeet Das

“Storytellers are individuals who enjoy creating a holiday for the mind.”

— Linda Daly

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

— Beeban Kidron