Storyteller Quotations

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller,

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

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

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

Time is a wonderful storyteller.

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

Amanda Ashley is a master storyteller.

The best teachers are the best storytellers.

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

I'm an old storyteller. [When] I tell the story, it's about the story.

We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.

Joss [Whedon] is an excellent storyteller. It really doesn't matter what medium he's working in.

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately, there are millions who do.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.