A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well.
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.
I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.
I'm just a story teller.
I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.
I see myself as a story teller.
The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.