Best Storyteller Qoutes

279 Storyteller quotes by 238 unique authors

Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me,… — Alice Hoffman
I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell. — Kate Morton
My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray… — Frances Hardinge
There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth. — Anne Rice
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on… — Walter Benjamin
Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars. — Matthew J. Kirby
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise… — Chinua Achebe
There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not… — Flannery O'Connor
We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's. — Naomi Shihab Nye
Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in… — Stephen R. Donaldson
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the… — Erin Morgenstern
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not… — Marina Warner
Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In… — Joanne Harris
Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed,… — Isak Dinesen
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level,… — Alan Garner
A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself. — Daniel Wallace
From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you… — Toni Morrison
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would… — George Bernard Shaw
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would… — John Cheever
For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just… — Robin McKinley
Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He… — Ralph Macchio
God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries. — Elif Safak
What creates success on HSN is great product, a great story and a great storyteller. — Mindy Grossman
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or… — Douglas Coupland
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a… — Athol Fugard

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