Teller Quotes

94 quotes by 88 authors

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. — Charles Lamb
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. — Philip Pullman
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This… — Jean-Paul Sartre
So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long… — Brian Jacques
Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener,… — Terry Tempest Williams
The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny… — Mark Twain
But while I'd be their daughter, while I'd eat the roast and come home from dates and wash the dishes, I would also be myself.… — Judy Blundell
I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of… — John Steinbeck
The story of my family. . .changes with the teller. — Jennifer Haigh
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller. — Truman Capote
Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out… — Arthur Golden
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener. — Nancy Farmer
I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's long enough and… — Kate Forsyth
Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain… — Susan Fletcher
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors. — Kate Morton
So,â€ Marasi said, â€œyou traded a dead manâ€™s scarf for another dead manâ€™s gun. Butâ€¦the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same… — Brandon Sanderson
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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