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I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells ... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller. — Tyler Perry

It is the storyteller's prerogative to try to write, every now and then, the ending she might wish for. Even if it exists only on the white page. — Natasha Solomons

Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician. — Amit Kalantri

A lovely young girl lies on a bed in the dark listening to a fairy tale," I said. "But she's naked and the storyteller's hands are all over her. — Glen Duncan

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

Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human. — Pete Hamill

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe. — Robert A. Heinlein

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo. — Alan Rickman

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart. They are a big reason I'm a storyteller because they are two of the best. — Henry Cho

Cher is really down-to-earth, very nurturing, incredibly funny and fun, a great storyteller, and creates a great environment on the set. — Steve Antin

A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller. — Young-Ha Kim

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

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

a story will tell itself, when it's ready — Jodi Picoult

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic. — Bat For Lashes

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance. — Ian McDiarmid

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller. — Tori Amos

I think of myself as an assistant storyteller. — Harrison Ford

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right? — Ridley Scott

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

It is a longstanding South-
ern tradition to call someone a "storyteller" as a polite
way of calling him a liar. — William R. Cobb

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting. — Diablo Cody

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

Everyone has a story within them, let yours out. — C.J. Heath

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

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller. — James Welch

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

Belief is the enemy of a storyteller — Rabih Alameddine

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing. — Kelly Jones

Never be afraid to your share your story. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book. — Daniel Alarcon

I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts. Never saw one. — Ruskin Bond

I'm just a storyteller. — Norman Jewison

What creates success on HSN is great product, a great story and a great storyteller. — Mindy Grossman

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work. — Jim Goldberg

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller. — Terri Windling

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

He knows what will upset me before it even happens and like a superhero, bends the track of the runaway train before it strikes. — Jodi Picoult

I'm a good storyteller. — Sophie Marceau

I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories. — Ron Shock

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

It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. — Graham Greene

The adventurer became the storyteller ... and then the Sentinel of the Sea. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Sandeep Jauhar is a compelling storyteller, and Doctored gives us a fantastic tour through the seedy underworld of American medicine. — Lisa Sanders

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards. — Michael Bergdahl

I'm an old storyteller. [When] I tell the story, it's about the story. — Nikki Giovanni

Who makes you Storyteller? You do. You are. Go play. — Will Hindmarch

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward. — Maria Semple

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change. — Pamela Yates

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller. — Ira Glass

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines. — Rebecca Miller

It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try. — Orson Scott Card

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories. — Henry Rollins

An old Apache storyteller reminds us — Joseph Campbell

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

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

Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working'. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I know I'm a storyteller at heart, and if there's a platform that needs stories, I'm going be there. — Michelle Phan

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller. — Robert McKee

A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer. — Vladimir Nabokov

I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one. — Rabih Alameddine

For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety. — Joyce Rachelle

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

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same? — Elie Wiesel

A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood. — Phil Keoghan

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

I can't be forgiven so I am not asking you for forgiveness. We lost each other, and we will never find each other again. — Antonia Michaelis

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. — Salman Rushdie

Magician is the best storyteller in the world. — Amit Kalantri

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller. — Terence Winter

Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic. — Amit Kalantri

Behind a life of influence you will find a masterful storyteller. — Mollie Marti

Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it. — Amit Kalantri

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me. — Angelique Kidjo

A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner — Michael Chabon

I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it. — Tony DiTerlizzi

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand. — Nic Pizzolatto

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story. — Aaron Sorkin

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you. — Isobelle Carmody

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth. — Anne Rice

Not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. — Jacqueline Carey

Steve Jackson is a born storyteller. He makes you sweat ... and turn the page. — Ron Franscell

Writer? Author? Storyteller, that's what I decided to be. — Robert McCammon

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. — Joshua Bell

What is man? Storyteller, mythmaker, and destroyer of the living world. Thinking — Edward O. Wilson

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

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

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers. — Walter Benjamin

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes. — David Schwimmer

I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, on who is half hacker, half bard. — Janet H. Murray

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me. — Santino Fontana

every person is a story and therefore is a storyteller. Trouble is that many fear failure, so they never begin. — William Paul Young

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

In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to. — Maarten Schafer

I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening. — Conor McPherson

When rumours fly, when false tales are being told, be the storyteller. — Bernard Cornwell

Our stories are the tellers of us. -Little Bee — Chris Cleave

I didn't want to be a storyteller when I grew up; I wanted to be stuntman. — Chris Milk

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