1.
I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?
Robert Mugabe
I am an educator. I'm an economist. I am a politician. Additionally, I have now become a proficient raconteur, do you see?
2.
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
Isabel Allende
4.
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
Walt Disney
5.
A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.
Dave Allen
6.
The best teachers are the best storytellers.
Frank Smith
7.
If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.
George Pelecanos
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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.
John Ridley
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The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.
Edward Eggleston
11.
Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.
Lionel Richie
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You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
Margaret Atwood
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There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.
Tomm Moore
14.
The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.
Jack Zipes
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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.
Chinua Achebe
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No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.
John Milius
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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
Tom Clancy
21.
I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.
David Eddings
22.
I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.
Alistair Maclean
23.
I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
Nikki Giovanni
24.
I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.
Wes Borland
25.
Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.
Ashly Lorenzana
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A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
Mark Richard
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I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.
Diablo Cody
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I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.
Curtis Hanson
31.
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.
James Patterson
32.
I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.
Danny Huston
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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
Angelique Kidjo
34.
Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.
Matthew J. Kirby
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I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
Katherine Dunn
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As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.
Vladimir Sorokin
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We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be
Quintin Jardine
43.
This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.
Tom Hanks
45.
If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.
Larry Clark
46.
A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.
Phil Keoghan
47.
At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
Anne Lamott
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The more you read, the better you're going to become as a storyteller.
Stan Lee
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I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
Wilbur Smith