Storyteller Quotes - Page 2

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

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

I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

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

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

The more you read, the better you're going to become as a storyteller.

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be

A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.

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.

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

Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

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.

If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.