Common Quote by John Irving

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

— Noah Hawley

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

— Daniel Wallace

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound…

— Ann Beattie

When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.

— John Hawkes

…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character. Sometimes they…

— Grace Paley

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…

— Susan Fletcher

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I've always considered myself, at the end of the day, to be kind of a storyteller.

— Ross Mathews

I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I…

— Steven Spielberg

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

— John Patrick Shanley

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.

— Shonda Rhimes