Story Teller Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
— Walter Benjamin
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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
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
— Isabel Allende
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
— Philip Pullman
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I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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I see myself as a story teller.
— E. L. James
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Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
— John Lasseter
Who Wrote These Story Teller Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 30 Story Teller Quotes, led by these top contributors: