Needs Quote by Susan Fletcher

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

“I believe that we need good tale-tellers now, as much as we did when the oral tradition was the only way that they were…

— Alan Lee

Our stories are the tellers of us.

— Chris Cleave

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

— Isabel Allende

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

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

“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

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

— Neil Gaiman

“It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller…

— Melville Davisson Post

“All people are natural story-tellers. We tell a story every time we tell someone what we did that day or share an opinion of…

— Doug TenNapel

Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my…

— Abbas Kiarostami

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

— Joan Silber