Top 264 Storytellers Quotes & Sayings

I'm a storyteller. My whole family is storytellers. I'm just a product of my environment.

John Grisham is one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

I was never a critic. I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se. I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers. And I still am. I'm still a great movie fan, and I ,that love of movies is very much alive in me. I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

I come from a long line of storytellers.

I really do see everybody at Marvel Television as storytellers. They might have different titles, but whether they're actors or they're showrunners or they're somebody that answers the phone, all of them are storytellers.

We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.

First, the skill of storytelling helps to galvanize your team. Second, the discipline of storytelling requires leaders to be clear about their intentions and to prioritize what fits into the story versus secondary goals and issues. Third, there is possibly an artifact here - great storytellers can make their exploits and achievements sound very exciting and memorable. Successful leaders who are not good storytellers won't get the acknowledgement and appreciation they deserve.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

Women are important storytellers who help connect the Instagram community to what's happening in the world.

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

I think it would be bad for storytellers in general if one company was able to seize a 40-50-60% share in storytelling. I don't think monopoly market shares are good for society, and I think they'd be particularly bad for society and storytellers if they were achieved in the storytelling genre.

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

A long-running show leaves behind a legacy of storytellers and their relationship with the audience.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

With the finale episode of 'Gravity Falls' our job as storytellers is to finish all the things we've started.

I'm one of the greatest storytellers ever.

Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.

To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.

Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

Rappers were my storytellers.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

In 21st-century storytelling all bets are off: anybody can do anything. We're all storytellers.

I really latched on to announcers who were good storytellers.

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders.

Perhaps storytellers don't need to care as much about the future as executives and investors do. After all, isn't it possible that technology will enable storytellers to connect directly to their audience without the need for anyone to share the programming decisions or the profit in between? Don't bet on it.

My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.

I don't think comedians are better travellers but they are communicators and storytellers.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.

I come from a family of storytellers.

As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

I grew up listening to the 60's and 70's... storytellers and poets.

I don't like seeing talented storytellers ruled by fear.

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

I'm actually quite critical of the storytelling theme. I think all the storytellers are not storytellers.

To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.

I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.

Stories live forever. Storytellers don't.

I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.