About Quote by Colm Toibin

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

— Stefan Sagmeister

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

— Nathan Englander

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

— Vikas Swarup

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one,…

— Judy Blume

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.

— Dianne Reeves

Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I do. I…

— Freedy Johnston

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves…

— James Bernard Frost

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

— Sarah Dessen

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

— Bruce Boxleitner

If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.

— Ethan Mordden

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

— Tom Clancy