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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
If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.
— George Pelecanos
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
The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master
— Robert Hunter
At the core, I'm a filmmaker and a storyteller.
— John Schneider
a story will tell itself, when it's ready
— Jodi Picoult
I think of myself ... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
— Louis L'Amour
What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.
— Jodi Picoult
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
— Isabel Allende
The storyteller has the power to make people feel good or bad about themselves. The storyteller has the
— Sister Souljah
My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
— Marian Keyes
Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family ... what my mother called 'The Liar.'
— James Rollins
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
For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.
— N. Scott Momaday
I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.
— Robert Stack
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
Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.
— Edwidge Danticat
Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.
— Curtis W. Fentress
I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.
— Isobelle Carmody
Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.
— Jenna Alatari
I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction.
— Robbie Robertson
I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
— Deborah Harkness
Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.
— Laila Lalami
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
— Nic Pizzolatto
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
— Astro Teller
I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.
— Sara Paretsky
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
I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.
— David Schwimmer
The old adage that 'there are two sides to every story' is not true. There is a story for every storyteller.
— Kenneth Eade
I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.
— Leanne Pooley
In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.
— Walter Benjamin
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
Be sure you don't stop the story while describing. You are a storyteller, not an interior decorator.
— Sol Stein
A story always tells the truth about the true intention of the storyteller, regardless of the plot." - Peter Arpesella
— Peter Arpesella
If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?
— Lloyd Alexander
But I used to think," Josef says quietly, "that there are some weeds that are just as beautiful as flowers."(pg 134) — Jodi Picoult
What was he? Storyteller and secretary and doer of odd jobs, neither Tizerkane nor delegate, just someone along for the dream.
— Laini Taylor
A patient, long before he becomes the subject of medical scrutiny, is, at first, simply a storyteller, a narrator of suffering -
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.
— Robin McKinley
I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.
— Conor McPherson
Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.
— Norman Jewison
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.
— James Robertson
Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?
— Elie Wiesel
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
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 became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.
— Salman Rushdie
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
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
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
— Robert McKee
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 storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.
— Phil Keoghan
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
When rumours fly, when false tales are being told, be the storyteller.
— Bernard Cornwell
Sandeep Jauhar is a compelling storyteller, and Doctored gives us a fantastic tour through the seedy underworld of American medicine.
— Lisa Sanders
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In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to.
— Maarten Schafer
You are the storyteller, and this life is your story.
— Lisa Wimberger
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.
— William Trevor
I'm a storyteller. Of all the things I've ever done, I'd like to be remembered as a storyteller.
— Jim Korkis
It always matters who the storyteller is. It's a lens.
— James Still
For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.
— Cameron Dokey
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
— Walter Benjamin
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
— Neil Gaiman
Whether it was true or false seems ultimately of little importance.Donald Sturrock in 'Storyteller. The Life of Roald Dahl — Donald Sturrock
As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.
— Vladimir Sorokin
Magician is the best storyteller in the world.
— Amit Kalantri
