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.

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

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

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.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

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

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

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

I'm not much of a storyteller with words!

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

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.

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

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

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what your story is about.

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

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.

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

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

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.