Storyteller Quotes

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

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

Time is a wonderful storyteller.

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

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

The best teachers are the best storytellers.

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

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.

The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.

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

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

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

There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.

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

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.

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

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

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

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

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

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

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

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

Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.

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

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

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

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

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

Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

Amanda Ashley is a master storyteller.

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

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

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

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

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

The more you read, the better you're going to become as a storyteller.

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

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

I'm not much of a storyteller with words!

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

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

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

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