Story Teller Quotes

30 quotes by 29 authors

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin
I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and… — Bill Bryson
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently. — Isabel Allende
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind,… — Erskine Caldwell
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind,… — Ben Okri
I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong… — Chip Kidd
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than… — James Payn
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.… — Norman Rockwell
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one… — Jose Saramago
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the… — Loren Eiseley
Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and cats with a… — Jen Lancaster
Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence of THOSE WHO… — Lisa Unger
He [Mark Webb] is very savvy, technically, he's shot so many videos, he knows how to get what he wants. The surprise, of course, is… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. — Ernest Hemingway
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. — Philip Pullman
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a mirror? Dark and light, we are all… — MacDonald Harris
I see myself as a story teller. — E. L. James
Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director. — John Lasseter

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29 authors contributed a total of 30 Story Teller Quotes, led by these top contributors: