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.
A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.
Dave Allen
5.
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
Walt Disney
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
8.
The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.
Edward Eggleston
9.
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
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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The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.
Jack Zipes
14.
There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.
Tomm Moore
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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
18.
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
Tom Clancy
19.
No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.
John Milius
21.
Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.
Ashly Lorenzana
22.
I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.
David Eddings
23.
I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
Nikki Giovanni
24.
I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.
Alistair Maclean
25.
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
27.
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
Mark Richard
28.
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.
Diablo Cody
29.
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
30.
Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.
Nir Hod
32.
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
Tori Amos
33.
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.
Michael Kimmelman
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I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
Tanith Lee
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I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
Kate Morton
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Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.
Edwidge Danticat
37.
I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.
Ashwin Sanghi
38.
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.
Lesli Linka Glatter
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My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
Marian Keyes
40.
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.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
41.
I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
Rachel Weisz
42.
You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.
Joss Whedon
43.
When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.
Charles Halford
44.
I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
Angelique Kidjo
46.
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
47.
I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.
Danny Huston
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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