Good Storytellers Quotes

#1. All good storytellers are of necessity good writers - even if they may be poorly edited ones. Unfortunately, not all good writers are good storytellers.

Nupur Tustin

#2. Good storytellers are always ready for the next question.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#3. Although arguably, it's my job to dig deep whether I'm improvising or not. It's just their style. That's the way they feel like they get what they want. I mean, they're really good storytellers, so I love being in their hands.

Amanda Peet

#4. God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

Tom Spanbauer

#5. When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins.

Sonia Rumzi

#6. Painters
and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. He was a good storyteller, but he told the kind of stories that made children run away from the village and adults look for a length of rope and some soap.

Sorin Suciu

#8. You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

Sandra Dallas

#9. What are you?" I said irritably.
"In the Serengeti, Ms. Lane, I would be the cheetah. I'm stronger, smarter, faster, and hungrier than everything else out there. And I don't apologize to the gazelle when I take it down.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. Never seen my friends do more push-ups, trying to challenge Cruises' manhood. It was like, I can be strong, too!

Adam Sandler

#11. Music stops you from thinking.

Peter Weir

#12. He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

Frank Herbert

#13. As long as it comes from the heart, in the end, it will be good.

A.D. Posey

#14. Screw chocolate. A good steak is where it's at.

A.D. Posey

#15. Sometimes the boys from Propaganda will nose around for a feel-good story to play to the citizens over the loudspeakers, but we're story takers, not storytellers.

Adam Johnson

#16. The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.

B. D. Wong

#17. If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.

A.D. Posey

#18. I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

Matthew Ashford

#19. A good preview makes you can't wait to see the whole movie.

A.D. Posey

#20. The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

A.D. Posey

#21. Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.

Ashwin Sanghi

#22. I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the really good ones are really great storytellers, and I'm interested in that. If you're not interested in that as a director then you better be Stanley Kurbrick.

Paul Bettany

#23. Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul.

A.D. Posey

#24. Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

G.K. Chesterton

#25. Every second is your own. Make it count.

Mike Gardner

#26. Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.

Paul Bettany