Best Storyteller Sayings

279 Storyteller quotes by 238 unique authors

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it,… — Federico Fellini
The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others. — Jack Zipes
I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page. I think if… — Rudolfo Anaya
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. — Kazimir Malevich
A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way. — Dave Allen
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers. — Katherine Dunn
I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the… — Steve Saint
A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the… — Maxine Hong Kingston
I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique. — Alistair Maclean
Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller, and Counterclockwise is… — Dan Ariely
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller. — Robert McKee
Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph… — Robert McKee
We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny… — Sol Saks
We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their… — Bill Harley
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. — Beeban Kidron
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of… — Barry Levinson
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be… — Flannery O'Connor
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova… — Keith Donohue
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller. — Isak Dinesen
I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we… — Donald Miller
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds. — Dalai Lama
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience. — David Simon
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive — Chris Cleave
Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through… — Unknown Author
You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You… — Ben Kingsley

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