Kind Quote by Nancy Farmer

“A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means.”

— Joan Silber

People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

— Susan Fletcher

“The trouble with playing a trick on a highly intelligent man like Mr. Teller is that the time it takes him to figure out…

— Richard Feynman

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

— Jennifer Haigh

“And sometimes when the story ends Only the teller's left to make amends.”

— Alex Bledsoe

I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point…

— W. G. Sebald

Our stories are the tellers of us.

— Chris Cleave

“Every story instructs. The teller ignores this truth at peril.”

— Steven Erikson

“People respond to the stories. They tell them themselves. The stories spread, and as people tell them, the stories change the tellers.”

— Neil Gaiman

“When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another…

— Mary Lascelles

Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has…

— Terry Tempest Williams

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

— Herbert Gold