Storyteller famous quotes

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

#Art #Novelists #Storyteller

Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.
-- Ashly Lorenzana

#Shows #Storyteller

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

#Meaningful #Want #Storyteller

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
-- Beeban Kidron

#Fables #Parables #Storyteller

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
-- Bruce Boxleitner

#Actors #Storyteller

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.
-- Bryce Courtenay

#Storyteller #Entertainers

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

#Fans #Care #Storyteller

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

#Memories #Survivor #Storyteller

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.
-- Dave Allen

#Way #Facts #Storyteller

The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.
-- Edward Eggleston

#Lasting #Storyteller

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.
-- George Pelecanos

#Stories #Ends #Storyteller

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
-- Isabel Allende

#Legends #Fame #Storyteller

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.
-- Jack Zipes

#Roles #Storyteller

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.
-- Jackie Collins

#Writing #Want #Storyteller

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

#Comeback #Born #Storyteller

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
-- Katherine Dunn

#Reader #Storyteller

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

#Country #Storyteller

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
-- Marian Keyes

#Mother #Storyteller

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

#Defeated #Explaining #Storyteller

Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.
-- Matthew J. Kirby

#Liars #Never Trust #Storyteller

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.
-- Michael Ironside

#Actors #Directors #Storyteller

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

#Narrative #Storyteller

We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.
-- Naomi Shihab Nye

#Lap #Trouble #Storyteller

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
-- Neil Gaiman

#Stories #Never Trust #Storyteller

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
-- Oliver North

#Reader #Storyteller

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
-- Peter Handke

#Writing #Childhood #Storyteller

Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be
-- Quintin Jardine

#Trying #Storyteller

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
-- Rachel Weisz

#Actors #Storyteller #Entertainers

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.
-- Richard Attenborough

#Want #Storyteller #Remembered

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.
-- Sebastiao Salgado

#Photography #Artist #Storyteller

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
-- Tanith Lee

#Thinking #Storyteller

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
-- Tom Clancy

#Memorable #Thinking #Storyteller

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

#Order #Imagination #Storyteller

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

#Feelings #Wanted #Storyteller

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

#Want #Wells #Storyteller

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.
-- Joshua Oppenheimer

#Storyteller #Explorers

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

#Book #Years #Storyteller

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

#Thinking #Storyteller #Lifting

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

#Painting #Painter #Storyteller

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

#Stories #Storyteller #Versions

As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.
-- Vladimir Sorokin

#Moscow #Common #Storyteller

I'm not much of a storyteller with words!
-- Brad Mehldau

#Storyteller

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

#Lovers #Distinction #Storyteller

A good story needs only a good storyteller.
-- Richard Bausch

#Needs #Stories #Storyteller

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

#Politician #Economist #Storyteller

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

#Emotion #Worried #Storyteller