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.
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
9.
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
12.
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
Margaret Atwood
13.
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
15.
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
19.
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
Tom Clancy
20.
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 not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.
Alistair Maclean
24.
I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
Nikki Giovanni
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
26.
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
28.
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
Mark Richard
29.
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.
Diablo Cody
30.
A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.
Phil Keoghan
31.
At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
Anne Lamott
32.
The more you read, the better you're going to become as a storyteller.
Stan Lee
33.
I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
Wilbur Smith
35.
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
37.
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
Tori Amos
38.
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.
Michael Kimmelman
39.
I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
Tanith Lee
40.
I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
Kate Morton
41.
Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.
Edwidge Danticat
42.
I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.
Ashwin Sanghi
43.
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
44.
My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
Marian Keyes
45.
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
46.
I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
Rachel Weisz
47.
You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.
Joss Whedon
48.
When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.
Charles Halford
50.
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