Storyteller Quotes

279 quotes by 243 authors

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer. — Tom Clancy
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting. — Diablo Cody
Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win. — Christiane Amanpour
I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a nurse, teacher, builder… — Eppu Nuotio
When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything… — Byron Katie
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe. — Robert A. Heinlein
Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a… — Patti Davis
Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and… — Paddy Chayefsky
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who… — Daniel H. Pink
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. — Peter Handke
All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations. — Mark Richard
The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation. — James A. Michener
I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the storyteller's… — Murasaki Shikibu
Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to… — James A. Michener
I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself. — Robert Stack
Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be… — Frank Pittman
Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us. — Robert Redford

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