Storyteller Quotes - page 2

J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards. (Michael O'Brien)
Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. View quote
Norman Jewison
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be. View quote
Ruth Park
The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it. View quote
Terri Windling
The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master. View quote
Robert Hunter
We are at the very bottom, at the dark foundations-we are with the Mothers. Here are endless infernos, those hopeless Ossianic expanses, those lamentable Nibelungs. Here are the great incubators of stories, storyteller factories, misty kilns of fables and fairytales. View quote
Bruno Schulz
He was carried away by that mania of the storyteller, who never knows which stories are more beautiful-the ones that really happened and the evocation of which recalls a whole flow of hours past, of petty emotions, boredom, happiness, insecurity, vanity, and self-disgust, or those which are invented, and in which he cuts out a main pattern, and everything seems easy, then begins to vary it as he realizes more and more that he is describing again things that had happened or been understood in lived reality. View quote
Italo Calvino
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. View quote
Chinua Achebe
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves. View quote
Irvine Welsh
Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence. View quote
Karen Blixen
Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller. (Bruce Dickinson)
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions. View quote
Philip Pullman
People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it. View quote
Cecelia Ahern
The work deserved its success for its own merits, for despite the narration of many marvellous sights, the author remained urbane and tolerant. He was a superb storyteller with a vivid imagination, who was able to combine the novel with the familiar, and moral exhortation with entertainment. View quote
John Mandeville
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller. View quote
Kevin Spacey
I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it. View quote
Tanith Lee
If young people don't like reading, let's not blame television or the modern world or school. Or rather, blame them all, but only after asking what we have done to that ideal reader since the days when we played at being both storyteller and book. View quote
Daniel Pennac
If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth? View quote
Lloyd Alexander
The human mind is a wanton storyteller and even more, a profligate seeker after pattern. We see faces in clouds and tortillas, fortunes in tea leaves and planetary movements. It is quite difficult to prove a real pattern as distinct from a superficial illusion. View quote
Richard Dawkins
I like to think of myself as a storyteller. View quote
Kate DiCamillo
If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away. (Colm Tóibín)
People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away. View quote
Colm Tóibín
Literary scholars end up being some kind of storyteller, too. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
Are animals like car-crashes -- Acts of God or mere Accidents -- bizarre, tragic, farcical, plotted nowadays into a scenario by an ingenious storyteller, Mr C Darwin? View quote
Peter Greenaway
The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer