Top 582 Storyteller Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.
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.
Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.
I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.
As long as I'm making something from my voice, from my perspective there will be Asian American content because I am the storyteller.
I'm just an old storyteller, and I always wanted to know, what the hell were these candidates really like?
I just follow what inspires me as an artist and a storyteller, and stay true to myself in my work.
I really just want to be a writer and a storyteller. But maybe pain is one of the things you have to feel in order to be creative.
If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.
Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.
I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.
Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.
The thing I love about theater is the fact that everyone's complicit. We're either there as a storyteller, or we're there as a listener, and it's basically a campfire situation.
I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.
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.
My career has gone in such a way that I've gotten to learn that, when you're working with a great storyteller, you don't ask questions; you just trust them.
The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.
Essentially, I'm a storyteller, and I make my living by telling stories, be they music or nonfiction or fiction.
Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.
I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.
I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.
Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
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.
Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.
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.
I'm not representing anyone - not Israelis, not Palestinians - I'm just a storyteller trying to raise more questions than give answers.
If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?
An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.
I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
I would say that my whole career is effectively trying to be a storyteller within the context of financial news.
When Slick Rick first hit the scene, I had to practice that British accent. There's no other storyteller like this man.
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.
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.
I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.
People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.
As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.
It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.
I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.
To me, a good storyteller should be able to tell stories across genres.
I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.
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.
I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.
A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.
