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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.
For me, as an activist and a storyteller, I'm very centered in ensuring that we show the complicatedness of the human experience that happens to be rooted in my community's trans experiences.
Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.
I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
Bausch is a wonderful storyteller. He's a mature writer who has a lot of confidence in the quality of character. He doesn't need to hook you with a sneaky plot and zany characters.
Sandeep Jauhar is a compelling storyteller, and Doctored gives us a fantastic tour through the seedy underworld of American medicine.
I don't believe that my first name is Leo or that my last name is Tolstoy. I'm a storyteller.
I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.
In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful.
If I as a storyteller and performer get to participate in something that can potentially elevate something in society, morally? I'm all for it.
I want to be a storyteller - not only of the Latin experience but of people who want to be inspired.
The most powerful person in the world is the story teller.
The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda
of an entire generation that is to come.
I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has as much fun watching it as I am creating it.
As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.
The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
As a storyteller, I realize that because of the inherent abstraction in rhythm, the possible interpretations are plenty. But that only makes the work more challenging.
It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
If you were to put me under one umbrella, call me a storyteller.
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.
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
I'm a storyteller who wants to tell untold, meaningful, universal stories in unforgettable ways. I want to do it all, study it all, and find my place in it.
I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.
Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.
I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.
Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.
I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.
Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.
In a way, perhaps, there's an advantage of being on the edge of something and looking in as the observer, because as the filmmaker, you're the storyteller, and you're pulling out this universal story.
I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.
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.
No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.
It was very important to me to choose a director like Gary [Ross], whose instincts come from character, who's a storyteller, and who puts characters first.
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.
Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'
I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.
A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.
When I first encountered Shakespeare as a boy, I read every word this man has written. To me, he is like an African storyteller.
I'm certainly no Bruce Springsteen in terms of being a storyteller, but I'm trying to get a better handle on it and not always go after it from an autobiographical standpoint.
Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.
I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
I don't think of myself as a television producer. Obviously, that's crazy. Because I should. That's what I do. But I don't actually see that as my job. It's why my business cards say 'storyteller.'
I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller.
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.
My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.
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.
God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.
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.
The power that you have as a storyteller is to be able to tell stories that are at once entertaining but also never lose sight of what's going on in the real world.
As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.
