Best Storyteller Proverbs

279 Storyteller quotes by 238 unique authors

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I… — Nikki Giovanni
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a… — William Maxwell
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
…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the… — Michael Ondaatje
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They… — Philip Pullman
I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story. — Vera Nazarian
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church… — Chinua Achebe
Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story… — Brian Greene
There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks… — John Steinbeck
For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part… — Jacqueline Carey
If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death. — George Pelecanos
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make… — Jane Yolen
You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't. — Sandra Dallas
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his… — Flannery O'Connor
The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad.… — Ben Okri
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her,… — Chris Cleave
Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind… — John Irving
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. — Brandon Sanderson
People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it. — Cecelia Ahern
What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But, I saw-" "What… — Brandon Sanderson
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not. — Isabel Allende
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour… — Flannery O'Connor
If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth? — Lloyd Alexander
...I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children… — Libba Bray

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