Best 92 quotes in «storyteller quotes» category

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

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.

I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

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

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

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.

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

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

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon.

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

The best teachers are the best storytellers.

A good storyteller minces words to entertain or inspire the audience. The politicians and religious leaders do much the same, but for a different purpose - to turn otherwise normal people to nutcases.

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

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

As I write, the story tells itself to me. It’s pure magic and it feels like a sacred bond. I’m always eager & excited to see what kind of adventure it’s going to take me on, and what I’m going to learn along the way…

And suddenly, the once-nameless boy knew he didn't want a stolen name, tarnished with use. What he wanted desperately was a name good enough to give to this girl.

At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary.

Asking storytellers to be genuine is like, asking a chain smoker to quit smoking . Habit of lying isn't easy to fix. Pretend as believing is like selling cigarettes. What else we could do, if we want them to be in our lives...

A story from beginning to end that might entertain, teach, or simply bore your listener. It's all in the delivery, my dear." He got a smug look on his face as he scooted his posterior deeper into the chair and took his pipe between his teeth. "I'm just better at it than most.

Everyone has a story within them, let yours out.

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.

But where did the storyteller go? The one whose words could sculpt A verse that made everything else melt into sense.

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Every poet — every storyteller — requires motivation.

I am a storyteller and experience the bliss of writing.

First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.

Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

I am a story-teller, even a story-teller of renown. May I add now that I am not much to look at? No, I am serious. My face is hideous. A look at me reminds one of a little finger – brown - enlarged to the proportions of a human body, wrapped two thirds down with a cloth about the loins, the entire frame resting on two wobbly knees. I was born bald and not a single strand of hair has ever sprouted on this miserable head. Think of me as a faceless man; in fact, I would rather you think of me as just a voice.

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.

I don't know whether it was Bukowski who said "Find what you love and let it kill you." I have found what I love. I love telling stories. And I am letting it kill me!

I don't know whether it was Bukowski who said "Find what you love and let it kill you." I have found what I love. I love telling stories. And I am letting it kil me!

If I were a zombie I'd never eat your brain I'd just want your heart

If you hear what I say and still wish yourself there, wish yourself a hero, wish yourself a hunter, then either I have failed in my telling or you are a fool.

If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story. Hurston understood that. But then she and I write out of despised cultures that on some level we feel we're defending.

Magician is the best storyteller in the world.

I am the story teller, charged with the secrets of this world and beyond. I am the calm in the storm, the quiet in the quake and the stillness in the dark. I am the old lady with the pot of water when you are dying of thirst. I am the sapling after the forest fire and the child who survives after pestilence. For those who will listen, hear you the first secret. Love is the sea in which all of nature exists and the greatest love of all is that which is spilled for another.

It was entirely taken for granted that there wasn't any lying in our family, and I was advanced in adolescence before I realized that in plenty of homes where I played with schoolmates, and went to their parties, children lied to their parents and parents lied to their children and to each other. It took me a long time to realize that these very same everyday lies, and the stratagems and jokes and tricks and dares that went with them, were in fact the basis of the scenes I so well loved to hear about and hoped for and treasured in the conversation of adults. My instinct - the dramatic instinct - was to lead me, eventually, on the right track for a storyteller: the scene was full of hints, pointers, suggestions, and promises of things to find out and know about human beings.I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken - and to know a truth, I also had to recognize a lie.

Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.

Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect.

I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.

I meet people and they become chapters in my stories.

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.